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Paintings by Giotto di Bondone (1266−1337) — the renowned Italian Late Gothic artist of frescos and polychrome works. Pages in category "Paintings by Giotto" ...
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."
Two of the works in Munich, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. The Life of Christ is a series of seven paintings in tempera and gold on panel, attributed to Giotto and dating to around 1320–1325.
The 'Madonna Enthroned' shows the numerous styles of art that influenced Giotto. In both the gold coloring used throughout the artwork and the flat gold ground, Giotto's art continued the traditional Italo-Byzantine style usual in the proto-Renaissance period. The altarpiece represents a formalized representation of an icon, still retaining the ...
Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. [ 1 ]
Lamentation by Giotto, 1305. The Lamentation of Christ [1] is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. [2] After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body. This event has been depicted by many different artists.
Giotto's Crucifix at Santa Maria Novella is a cross painted in tempera and gold on wood panel (578 x 406 cm) by Giotto di Bondone around 1290-1295. The crucifix is preserved in the center of the nave of Florence's Santa Maria Novella basilica. It is one of the earliest known works by the artist, then in his early twenties.
Giotto's work thus falls in the period from 25 March 1303 to 25 March 1305. Model of the interior of the chapel, towards entrance Towards the apse and altar. Giotto, who was born around 1267, was 36–38 years old when he worked at Enrico Scrovegni's chapel.