Giotto''s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility

This groundbreaking book takes readers on an eye-opening tour through one of the most celebrated monuments in the world - Giotto's Arena Chapel. Illustrated with almost 200 colour plates, this volume enables scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.

List of contents

1. A Venetian dream of Rome and Jerusalem; 2. 1300: the moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua; 3. The powers that were Scrovegni, Dalesmanini, Frangipani; 4. Giotto's painted reliefs; 5. Triumph and apotheosis from Augustine to Dante; Epilogue: Relief, triumph, transcendence.

About the author

Henrike Christiane Lange is Associate Professor in History of Art and Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Lange completed her Magister Artium at Universität Hamburg, Germany, before earning her PhD at Yale University. The present book is the culmination of two decades of research at sites, archives, and collections across Europe.

Summary

This groundbreaking book takes readers on an eye-opening tour through one of the most celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto's Arena Chapel. Illustrated with almost 200 colour plates, this volume enables scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of art and architecture history and to see it with new eyes.

Product details

• Authors: Henrike Christiane Lange, Henrike Christiane (University of Californi Lange, Henrike Christiane (University of California Lange
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781316511046
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51104-6
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Gothic, Padua, ART / General, Architectural structure & design, Italy, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, Painting & paintings, History of Architecture, Religious buildings, Architectural structure and design, Architecture: religious buildings, Murals and wall paintings, art history; medieval and Renaissance studies