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Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". [8]
According to legend, he saved the people of Choilley-Dardenay during drought by striking the ground with his pilgrim's staff, which caused a spring of water to bubble up. He died in 1103 of natural causes. [2] The Sermon to the Birds of Saint Francis, by Giotto (1266). The life of William Firmatus evinced a similar relationship with nature.
Cover art: Giotto di Bondone, detail from The Miracle of the Spring, 1297-99 [1] The Story of a Humble Christian (Italian: L'avventura d'un povero cristiano, 1968) is a historical play by the Italian writer Ignazio Silone, translated into English by William Weaver in 1970. [2] It tells the story of Pope Celestine V. [3]
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.
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.
The two niches with still lifes in the basement are perhaps inspired by Giotto's ones in the Scrovegni Chapel. The delicate and soft features are characteristic of Gaddi's late style. The adoption of night light in the Annunciation to the Shepherds is nearly unique in the mid-14th century painting of central Italy.
Enrico Scrovegni was a Paduan money-lender who lived around the time of Giotto and Dante. He was the son of Reginaldo degli Scrovegni and Capellina Malacapelli, and was married twice, first to a member of the Carrara family, then to Jacopina (Giacomina) d'Este, daughter of Francesco d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara.
The Approval, on the other hand, is very similar to Giotto's fresco in the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi Innocence III Confirms the Franciscan Order and is placed in a similar room with arches and shelves to create perspective. The Sermon stands out for its simplicity and abstraction, thanks to its gold background without decorations.