Restorers using ultra-violet rays have discovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings, hidden for centuries in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church.

Another U.S. airport suffered a potentially catastrophic communications meltdown this week, but Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy seems to have other concerns. Namely, moving a painting of Jesus ...

Giotto’s figures are imbued with emotion: the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, distraught as Christ is lowered from the cross; a raging rabble of Roman soldiers; and astonished witnesses of Jesus ...

In search of the historical Jesus: More questions than answers Facts about the life of Jesus Christ are few, contradictory, and lost in the mists of legend Detail of Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni ...

The most significant scene between Jesus and Judas was “The Kiss of Judas,” where he kisses Jesus on the cheek, revealing his identity to the crowd ready to arrest him. (Matthew 26:47-5). This moment ...

There’s a reassuring sense that even then, there was a lot going on well outside the mainstream. ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting 1300-1350’ is at the National Gallery from 8 March until 22 June ...

The Massacre of the Holy Innocents has frequently been depicted in art, both classical and contemporary. (A contemporary Eastern piece, which I like particularly for its blood-red focus, is found ...

They are flowers painted by Giotto, the maestro of medieval art. Some of them, I realise, have living lookalikes in my flower beds. As ever, art, flowers and gardens intertwine.

The true identity of the Byzantine painter Manuel Panselinos has been revealed by researchers studying a medieval illuminated manuscript.

The Met’s magical show of Sienese painting is the must-see of the season In “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” time paradoxically stands still and rushes forward.

[1] In many lamentation paintings the predominant note is sorrow, for instance in a truly moving one by Rogier van der Weyden. Though this Giotto fresco depicts the disciples’ deep sorrow over ...