Giotto and His Works in Padua
Publisher: IndyPublish
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781428073012
Subjects: Social Sciences; Artists, Architects, Photographers; General; History - General; Art-History - General; Biography & Autobiography / Artists, Architects, Photographers; Social Science-General; Biography & Autobiography; Sociology; 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.