STONES OF VENICE
Volume III
GIOTTO
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
HARBOURS OF ENGLAND
A JOY FOREVER
NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK CHICAGO
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GIOTTO AND HIS WORKS
LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE
THE HARBORS OF ENGLAND
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART (A Joy Forever)
AN EXPLANATORY NOTICE OF THE SERIES OF
WOODCUTS EXECUTED FOR THE ARUNDEL
SOCIETY AFTER THE FRESCOS IN
THE ARENA CHAPEL
GIOTTO AND HIS WORKS IN PADUA.
The following notice of Giotto has not been drawn up with any idea ofattempting a history of his life. That history could only be writtenafter a careful search through the libraries of Italy for alldocuments relating to the years during which he worked. I have no timefor such search, or even for the examination of well-known andpublished materials; and have therefore merely collected, from thesources nearest at hand, such information as appeared absolutelynecessary to render the series of Plates now published by the ArundelSociety intelligible and interesting to those among its Members whohave not devoted much time to the examination of mediæval works. Ihave prefixed a few remarks on the relation of the art of Giotto toformer and subsequent efforts; which I hope may be useful inpreventing the general reader from either looking for what the painternever intended to give, or missing the points to which his endeavourswere really directed.
J.R.
Towards the close of the thirteenth century, Enrico Scrovegno, a noblePaduan, purchased, in his native city, the remains of the RomanAmphitheatre or Arena from the family of the Delesmanini, to whomthose remains had been granted by the Emperor Henry III. of Germany in1090. For the power of making this purchase, Sc