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Boston, Massachusetts: Longwood Press, 1977. Hardcover. VG. edge-wear to covers & spine ends & spine ridges. corners rubbed. scratches & scuffs to covers. cover flyleaf & title pg has spot of soiling to upper corner. pgs free of marginalia/notations.. navy boards w/ gilt design & gilt spine printing. 124 pgs. The Arena Chapel in Padua was completed in 1303; Giotto, then considered the preeminent painter in Italy, was commissioned to paint it in 1306. Ruskin's ekphrastic writing became a way for readers to approach the experience of looking at great art without actually seeing it in person. Despite having written about Giotto on numerous occasions in Stones of Venice and Modern Painters, he never treated the Arena Chapel in its own right. Here Ruskin examines the panels and brings them life, describing their many hidden details, all the result of Giotto's unrivaled genius. As Ruskin says, "Giotto was...one of the greatest men who ever lived." Long out of print, the Arundel Society first published…
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- Title Early letters of Thomas Carlyle
- Author Thomas Carlyle
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- Publisher Longwood Press
- Date 1977-01
- ISBN 9780893414603
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Giotto And His Works In Padua: Being An Explanatory Notice Of The Series Of Woodcuts Executed For The Arundel Society After The Frescoes In The Arena Chapel
by Ruskin, John
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