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Giotto's O:

Narrative, Figuration, and Pictorial Ingenuity in the Arena Chapel
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A discussion of the murals by Giotto in the Arena Chapel of Padua, Italy. The artist's work is considered in terms of its relationship to the structure of the poetry of Dante, biblical exegesis, geometry, and symmetry.


Contents

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

Index



“For the reader of these extraordinarily perceptive essays, [Ladis’s] book is a prose poem in ekphrasis. Again and again, he inspires the reader to be a ‘thoughtful viewer-pilgrim’; we pilgrims are fortunate to have such a meticulous and sophisticated guide in Andrew Ladis.”

—Mark Sandona, Renaissance Quarterly

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