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OverviewAndrew Ladis begins his book with Giorgio Vasari's famous story of ""Giotto's O"", in which the artist drew a perfect circle freehand, baffled Pope Benedict IX's foolish messenger, and demonstrated his artistic brilliance to those qualified to understand. The fundamental premise of Ladis' work is that the Arena Chapel, like Giotto's mythical O or tondo, must be understood as a complete, unified whole. He tells us, 'the cycle of murals in the Arena Chapel has a depth that underpins the whole, an unpretentious profundity manifested in a formal order, and as in the case of the O, one must have the wherewithal to discern Giotto's achievement beyond the directness and emotional power of the narrative'.Ladis does not write about the program from the more expected standpoints of patronage or audience, or via extensive analysis of archival source material. Instead, without discounting the former approaches, Ladis considers Giotto's conception of the Arena Chapel in terms of biblical exegesis, a central geometry, and what he sees as the program's carefully planned symmetry. He urges the viewer to abandon the temporal narrative and follow 'visual cues that encourage readings that transcend narrative time,' and so he moves through a discussion of Giotto's frescoes, offering new insights about particular passages and continually considering how the meaning of each section resonates with others throughout the chapel. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew LadisPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 19.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 1.021kg ISBN: 9780271034072ISBN 10: 0271034076 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 08 January 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Giotto's O 1. The Highest Thing 2. That Obscure Object of Desire 3. Phantom Presences 4. The Rhetoric of Wonder 5. Things and Time Conclusion: Full Circle Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAndrew Ladis's inspired and beautifully wrought meditation on Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, a distillation of over thirty years of study, is a book of rare literary distinction, critical acumen, and scholarly depth - a work that illuminates with stunning insight the spirituality, humanity, and artistic genius of one of the truly great artists in the Western tradition. - Paul Barolsky, University of Virginia A marvelous work, beautifully written, full of fresh observations about the Arena Chapel. - Anne Derbes, Hood College Author InformationAndrew Ladis was Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Studies in Italian Art (2001), Giotto and the World of Early Italian Art, 4 vols. (1998), The Brancacci Chapel, Florence (1993), Italian Renaissance Maiolica from Southern Collections (1989), and Taddeo Gaddi: Critical Reappraisal and Catalogue Raisonne (1982). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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