Giotto and his works in Padua
Publisher: Echo Library
Published: May 8, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781406840919
Subjects: Artists, Architects, Photographers; General; Art : General; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Social Science : General; Art & Art Instruction
First sentence: 1. TOWARDS the close of the thirteenth century, Enrico Scrovegno, a noble Paduan, purchased, in his native city, the remains of the Roman Amphitheatre or Arena from the family of the Delesmanini, to whom those remains had been granted by the Emperor Henry III. of Germany in 1090.