Giotto And His Works In Padua
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781432612573
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Social Science : General; Artists, Architects, Photographers; General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
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.