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- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Venetian Dream of Rome and Jerusalem
- Chapter 2 1300: The Moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua
- Chapter 3 The Powers That Were
- Chapter 4 Giotto’s Painted Reliefs
- Chapter 5 Triumph and Apotheosis, Augustine to Dante
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Epilogue
Relief, Triumph, Transcendence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2023
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 A Venetian Dream of Rome and Jerusalem
- Chapter 2 1300: The Moment of the Jubilee in Rome and in Padua
- Chapter 3 The Powers That Were
- Chapter 4 Giotto’s Painted Reliefs
- Chapter 5 Triumph and Apotheosis, Augustine to Dante
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In Padua, we have seen a painter who leaves nothing to chance – someone who perspectivally adjusts each single tiny consoled dentil on the faux architectural cornice over the Virtues and Vices; someone who leaves traces of blonde polychromy on a fictive statue’s undercut areas and not on her head; someone who gives the head fragment of a fictive Bacchus a 180-degree rotation to show the force of a heavy triumphal cross falling like a hammer across his shoulders; someone who lets ancient garlands blossom around the Kiss at the Golden Gate even when those are barely visible from the ground. The details are as well-considered as the system in which they appear.
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- Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility , pp. 200 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023