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Title: Giotto
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: De Selincourt, Basil, 1876-
Subjects: Giotto, 1266?-1337
Publisher: London : Duckworth and Co. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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His words are as follows. He ap-proved the rule,* gave an order for the preaching ofpenitence, and had little crowns (i.e., tonsures) made forall the lay brothers, who had accompanied the servantof God, that they might freely preach Gods word. A certain advance in the treatment of perspective willbe noted here, partly due no doubt to the comparativesimplicity of the problem before the artist. Mr. Frysuggests that the architectural accessories were derivedby Giotto from the Roman school of the Cosmati,Giottos only known visit to Rome took place severalyears later; but it is admitted on all hands thatRoman artists took some part in the decoration of theupper church, and it may have been there that Giottomet them; or it may be that he had paid a visit toRome in his days of apprenticeship, and had actuallyseen at the Vatican a council chamber decorated by theCosmati. The design is of considerable beauty, and deliberately * There was not, at this time, speaking strictly, any * Rule atall.
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Photo, AndeiS07i\ THE API^ROVAL OF THE ORDER ( Asslsi. Upper ChurchTo face p. 34 FIRST WORKS IN ASSISI 35 framed to fix attention upon the supplication of Francis.The raised hands of the three foremost brothers leadthe eye to his face. The apprehensive severity of thecardinals offers a fine contrast, and lends some leniencyto the bending figure of the Pope. 8. S. Francis in the Fiery Chariot. And while the devoted man of God was spending thenight after his wont in prayer to God, in a hut in thepriests garden, and was absent in the flesh from hischildren, behold, about midnight, when some of thebrothers were asleep and others persisting in prayer, afiery chariot of marvellous brightness entered by the doorof the house, and made its way hither and thither threetimes about the dwelling ; above it rested a shining globe,which had the appearance of the sun, and made the nightlike day. The watchers were astounded, the sleepers atonce aroused and terrified.* The predominance, in the series,

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