Note 7 — Chapter I · GIOTTO AND THE NEW FLORENTINE HUMANISM
Reading edition
Giotto. Osvald Sirén, Giotto and Some of his Followers, Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1917, in 2 Vols., gives a reasonable chronology and is valuable for illustrations.
Roger E. Fry, Monthly Review, Vol. I, pp. 126–151; Vol. II, pp. 139–157; Vol. III, pp, 96–121 is an admirable critical analysis of Giotto’s style, but the ascriptions and chronology are often doubtful. Excellent on the frescoes at Sta. Croce. The essay is reprinted in Vision and Design, London, 1921.
J. B. Supino’s startling views in the chronology of Giotto, expressed in Giotto, Florence, 1920, in 3 Vols., seem to me fantastic.
His general order is the Allegories of the Lower Church and the Baroncelli altar-piece about 1300, the Arena frescoes 1305, the St. Francis series in the Upper Church about 1310, the Peruzzi Chapel about 1312, etc.
My list would be:
The Early Part of the St. Francis Series (II-XVIII) before 1300
The Mosaic of the Navicella (completely restored) about 1300
Stigmatization of St. Francis (Louvre) „ „
The Arena Frescoes about 1305
The Madonna of Ognissanti „ „
The Franciscan Allegories, Lower Church (design only) „ 1312–20
The Stefaneschi Altar-piece (in part) „ 1320, perhaps earlier
The Peruzzi Chapel, Santa Croce after 1320
The Bardi Chapel, „ „ about 1325
The Dormition of the Virgin, at Berlin „ 1325
Madonna, Ancona, Bologna (design only) „ 1330
The Paradise in the Bargello after 1330
Part of the Magdalen Legends there „ „
Part of the Magdalen Legends, Lower Church, Assisi „ „
Baroncelli Altar-piece (design only) „ „
Small panels of the Life of Christ
at New York, Fenway Court, Boston; „ „
Munich and Berenson Collection, „ „
Settignano (bottega works) „ „