Gothic of Giotto

The tracery of Giotto’s campanile in Florence (for a photograph see here) is illustrated at plates facing Works, 8.2 and facing Works, 8.138.

For Ruskin’s assessment of its ‘unique excellence’ see Works, 8.49f and Works, 8.187; Works, 9.195 for the ‘cornice perfect in all its parts’; Works, 9.238 for the ‘inconceivable exquisiteness’ of the windows of the campanile; Works, 11.230 on the use of the Campanile by modern architects improving it by adopting the perfect forms of Northern Gothic while working them out with Italian refinement.

[Version 0.05: May 2008]