A devilish head in the clouds of a Giotto mural appears. (via dailymail.co.uk) In today’s dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that “art restorers have discovered ...

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 thought: Is this ...

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CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a ...

Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries. Subscribe to ...

When Giotto di Bondone first envisioned what would become one of the signature structures of Florence, Italy, he may have had no notion of something called claustrophobia. Europeans in the 14th ...