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Title: Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by Bruce Cole ISBN: 0-8076-1310-X Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: August, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Better to get a post-Restoration book.
Comment: Be aware that the completion in early 2002 of the very extensive restorations of the frescoes makes this book at least partially obsolete. If you want to see what the frecoes look like now, you'll want a book published after April, 2002.
Rating: 5
Summary: Picture Perfect
Comment: I first stumbled upon this book shortly after having lived in Italy for five years and drinking richly of art, history and culture. I was so pleased to have discovered this rich treasury which beautifully repoduces each and every fresco of the magnificent little Scrovegni chapel in Padua -- a renaissance Italian city near Venice and made famous by Saint Anthony.
This little book of only 118 pages is in fact powerful enough to be a coffeetable treasure due to its stunning and colorful reproductions of the frescos and then coupled with its brilliant and succint text.
In many ways, I found this book more satisfying than the actual visit I made to the chapel a few years earlier. Why? The chapel is small and every wall and ceiling is covered with the work of that paramount, Renaissance master, Giotto. Even still, however, it can be difficult to enjoy the detail and nuisance of many of the frescoes that are located up high or in the shadow of dim lighting. This book removes the obstacles and allows you to enter into the artistic and theological mystery of each and every fresco.
Both novice, art historian and theological guru alike would enjoy adding this little gem to one's own library. The text provides insightful commentary into all perspectives of this chapel -- religious, artistic, and historical. A select bibliography adds even more opportunity to carry on the research.
I was saddened to see that the price had actually gone up from the time I first purchased a copy in 1993, when the book was first published. However, I'm not surprised. Whereas one would expect most books to decrease in value until they become those "bargain books," I believe that this one will be around for a long time -- a real classic for the library.
I highly recommend it for your collection.
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Title: Raphael: The Stanza Della Segnatura (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by James Beck ISBN: 0807613142 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Giotto: The Arena Chapel Frescoes: Illustrations, Introductory Essay, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism (Norton Critical Studies in Art History) by James H. Stubblebine ISBN: 0393314065 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Giotto : The Frescoes of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua by Giuseppe Basile ISBN: 8884912520 Publisher: Skira Pub. Date: 05 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $85.00 |
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Title: Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King ISBN: 0142000159 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Brancacci Chapel Florence (Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance) by Andrew Ladis ISBN: 0807613118 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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