The Usurer's Heart: Giotto, Enrico Scrovegni, and the Arena Chapel in Padua | 
 enlarge | Authors: Anne Derbes, Mark Sandona
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 312
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Dimensions (in): 11 x 9.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0271032561
Dewey Decimal Number: 759.5
EAN: 9780271032566
ASIN: 0271032561
Publication Date: August 29, 2008
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pAt the turn of the fourteenth century, Enrico Scrovegni constructed the most opulent palace that the city of Padua had seen, and he engaged the great Florentine painter, Giotto, to decorate the walls of his private chapel (1303n5). In that same decade, Dante consigned Enricois father, a notorious usurer, to the seventh circle of hell. The frescoes rank with Danteis Divine Comedy as some of the great monuments of late medieval Italian culture, and yet much about the fresco program is incompletely understood.br pMost traditional studies of the Arena Chapel have examined the frescoes as individual compositions, largely divorced from their original context, almost as if they were panels detached from an altarpiece and hung on a museum wall for the viewing pleasure of the connoisseur. br pAnne Derbes and Mark Sandona, in contrast, consider each image as part of an intricate network of visual and theological associations comparable to that of Danteis poem. The authors show how this remarkable ensemble of paintings offers complex meanings, meanings shaped by several interested partiesopatron, confessor, and painter.emThe Usureris Heart/em pieces together new historical evidence on the chapelis origins and describes the fresco program as, in part, an attempt to ameliorate the Scrovegni familyis reputation. It interprets the chapelis fresco program and the chapelis place in the heart of an ambitious and guilt-ridden moneylender./p
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