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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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Photo, Andersoni BONIFACE Vllf. (_The LateranTo face p. 92
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Photo, Alina>i\ THE VIRGIN RETURNS TO HER HOME iArena ChapelTo face p. 114 GIOTTOS WORK IN ROME 93 means lost its original character. The head of thecleric, on the Pope^s left, seems affected in its bend, butit is not to be judged in isolation from the design ofwhich it was a part. The life and individuality in thefeatures and expression of the Pope andi cardinal provethem true portraits; and in front of the original workthe student will experience something of the effectwhich the best Venetian portraiture creates, namely, thathe himself, and not the persons in the picture, is theobject of the closer scrutiny. Note.—To the same year, as the painting of PopeBonifaces portrait, or to the year following, is referreda work of great repute, the decoration of the chapeldedicated to the Magdalen in the palace of the Podesta,at Florence. A peculiar interest attached to this, be-cause it was believed to contain a portrait of Dante.But critics are now undecided, whether the remains offresc

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