Description: This four-volume set provides the most comprehensive collection of modern scholarly literature on the artist Giotto and his work. Assembling writings that are as disparate as they are sometimes hard to retrieve, it permits readers to consider the state of scholarship on a variety of specific problems surrounding Giotto's life and sheds light on larger historical issues concerning early Italian art and culture.

The series begins with an overview of writing about Giotto. These general accounts show how scholars' construction of Giotto as a historical figure and as a painter changed in the face of new information about his life and about the way thirteenth- and fourteenth-century artists worked. The first volume also includes a group of studies concerning various points in Giotto's biography and a second group concerning the painter's literary legend. The volume concludes with a miscellany of essays examining, among other things, Giotto's relationship to contemporary sculpture, his works in Milan and Naples, his workshop, and the application of such concepts as proportion and gravity to his work.

The second volume focuses on Giotto's chief work, the cycle of murals in the Arena Chapel, Padua. The third volume considers Giotto's career, both as a painter and as an architect, in his native Florence. The fourth volume includes essays concerned with works attributed to Giotto and workship in Assisi and Rome, paintings, which, no matter what one's view of their connection to Giotto, are now central to any interpretation of the master's career and his legacy.

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