GIOTTO. Tintori,Leonetto & Eve Borsook. — Giotto. The Peruzzi Chapel.

New York, Harry m. Abrams, [1965]. 209 pp. 112 ills on plts (incl. [19] tipped-in plts) & 4 diagrams. Orig. hardcover (gilt lettered gray cloth), d./j. 4to. - Dust jacket sl. worn along the edges. With a preface by Ugo Procacci and photographs by Nadir Tronci. - Text in English. - - The Peruzzi family commissioned Giotto to decorate the Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence with murals whose date is still uncertain but which were probably painted c. 1310. The murals represent Giotto's last surviving production. Facing each other across the chapel are Stories from the Lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist to whom the chapel is dedicated. The vault is decorated with the symbols of the four Evangelists, and eight busts of prophets adorn the intrados of the arch, but all that remains of the decoration on the back wall is a fragment with the Mystic Lamb. The murals set out some of the expressive and formal inventions that mark the shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.