Giotto
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"Giotto" by Harry Quilter is an essay about the facts of Giotto's life. The information has been taken from Vasari's Lives of the Painters and compared with those given by all later writers on the same subject. The descriptions of Padua, Assisi, and Florence were written on the spot, and the vignettes of the two former towns are reduced from sketches made by the author on purpose for the present work. The fresco of the Unknown Madonna, formerly attributed to Giotto, and still ascribed to him by the monks of Assisi, is reproduced here, by chromo-lithography, from a watercolor drawing made by th...
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- GIOTTO
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- ERRATA.
- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- CHAPTER II. ART IN ITALY IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER III. FRESCO PAINTING.
- CHAPTER IV. CIMABUE.
- CHAPTER V. GIOTTO.
- CHAPTER VI. THE CHIEF FUNCTION OF PAINTING.
- CHAPTER VII. THE EARLY WORK OF GIOTTO AT FLORENCE AND ROME.
- CHAPTER VIII. GIOTTO AT PADUA.
- CHAPTER IX. GIOTTO'S STYLE.
- CHAPTER X. GIOTTO AT ASSISI.—THE UPPER CHURCH.
- CHAPTER XI. THE LOWER CHURCH OF ASSISI.
- CHAPTER XII. GIOTTO'S LATER WORK AT FLORENCE.
- INDEX.
- FOOTNOTES
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