Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua by Bruce Cole The Scrovegni Chapel, a modest red brick building in a small park in Padua, houses one of the jewels of Early Renaissance art: the most extensive and best preserved fresco cylce of Giotto di Bondone. Here, nearly forty oversized frescoes tell the story of the lives of the Virgin, Christ, and the Virgi's parents, Sts. Joachim and Anne. Painted in a subtle yet brilliant array of colors---shimmering blues, golden reds, subtle ivories---these easy-to-read narrative panels have remained comprehensible and evocative to viewers for generations. The Scrovegni Chapel is Giotto's masterpiece. It established his genius for displacing the Byzantine style of painting and introducing the fundamental principles of Renaissance humanism into art. This book is part of George Braziller, Inc.'s series The Great Fresco Cycles of the Italian Renaissance. CL, ISBN: 080761310X $25.00 (Can: $37.50)