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There is a story that Dante visited Giotto while he was painting the Scrovegni Chapel and, seeing the artist's children underfoot asked how a man who painted such beautiful pictures could have such plain children. Giotto, who according to Vasari was always a wit, replied, "I make my pictures by day, and my babies by night."
Paintings by Giotto di Bondone (1266−1337) — the renowned Italian Late Gothic artist of frescos and polychrome works. Pages in category "Paintings by Giotto" ...
Depicting the Nativity and Passion of Christ, and Pentecost, they are now housed in a number of museums: three are in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, the Berenson Collection in Settignano and the National Gallery in London all have one each.
The work is composed by five framed paintings with a triangular cusp, and portrays the busts of the Virgin Mary (center) and, from the left, Saints Nicholas of Bari, John the Evangelist, Peter and Benedict, identified by their names below and their traditional attributes. Giotto made an extensive use of chiaroscuro.
In 1813 it became property of the Louvre (inv. 309), as part of the Napoleonic looting of art in Italy, together with Cimabue's Maestà, also from San Francesco. Jean Baptise Henraux took it, due to the interest of Dominique Vivant Denon, who was particularly passionate about "primitive" Italian paintings. It was put on display in the Louvre in ...
Giotto did away with many aspects of Byzantine art that would flatten the painting. Within Cimabue's Santa Trinita Maestà , there is the use of gold tracing to delineate the folds of the fabric. In contrast to this, Giotto's fabric folds are more realistic, and instead of lines he used light, shadow, and color to create the appearance of fabric.