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Giotto's fresco cycles of the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist in the Peruzzi Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence, have not enjoyed as much scholarly attention as the vast fresco cycle in the Arena Chapel. Scholars have analyzed the space depicted in the frescoes, the striking monumentality of the figures, and the depiction of architecture oblique to the picture plane; thematic content, however, has received less attention than form and space. In this essay, I will propose some religious and secular iconographic and thematic unities: themes of rebirth, resurrection, andcommunitas, which correlate with fourteenth-century Florentine attitudes toward wealth, historiography, and a belief in the spiritual role of the earthly city. The themes of the frescoes articulate the social and political structures of early fourteenth-century civic life, as Giotto transformed traditional subjects into images of contemporary significance in these frescoes.

He published essays on art education and museum administration in Contemporary Review, Nineteenth Century, The New Review, National Review, Figaro Illustre. He was the art editor of the 10th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (and contributed articles to subsequent editions) and the author of numerous monographs on major artists of the period, of miscellaneous studies including catalogues of international exhibitions, popular surveys of art works and studies of portraiture and sculpture. He wrote for the Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford English Dictionary, and Bryan's Dictionary of Painters. 3 An indefatigable member of many official committees for public memorials, international exhibitions,

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