Giotto changed all that. Using softer modeling on the features and a more colorful palette, he created figures that looked true to life. In the place of the mask-like visages of the Byzantines, he ...

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

The young untrained artist was Giotto, who would be taken to Florence as Cimabue's apprentice and soon outstrip his master. Posterity has been deprived of the sheep scratched in stone. But Giotto ...

Giotto was a genius, so much so that they tend to skirt around him. I have just checked what Kenneth Clark had to say about him in his wonderful BBC series, Civilisation , first broadcast in 1969.

Born around 1267 in a village near Florence, Giotto di Bondone was a pivotal figure in Western art. According to Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists," the shepherd boy was discovered by ...

Restorers are using them to save priceless 700-year-old frescoes by Giotto. They are using medical syringes in Assisi these days, but it has nothing to do with the pandemic.

When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...