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) „ „
Footnote 8:
Padre Angelis, _Collis Paradisi_, 1704, I, p. 33.
Footnote 9:
About the 28 stories of St. Francis there is no agreement except that
Nos. I and XXVI-VIII are by the “Cecelia Master.” Venturi sees Giotto
only in the later stories. I agree with Berenson that the ruder
frescoes, II-XVIII, which are based on the so-called Roman work above
show us Giotto at his beginnings. For the various views consult Brown
and Rankin, _A Short History_, pp. 48–9, 59, 61.
Footnote 10:
Alex. Romdahl’s attempt to set the upper row many years later than the
rest is entirely unconvincing to me. See _Jahrbuch der K. Preussischen
Kunstsammlungen_, 1911, pp. 3–18.
Footnote 11:
John Ruskin, _Mornings in Florence_, _passim_.
Footnote 12:
_Giotto’s Followers._ Osvald Sirén, _Giotto and Some of his
Followers_, see note 7, may be freely consulted for illustrations and
very cautiously for attributions.
Footnote 13:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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