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 ...

Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi certainly fits that bill. As Zachary Ginsberg writes for The Wall Street Journal, in contrast to the precedent of depicting ...

But piece by piece, a lot of the puzzle started to be filled in: St. Clare’s nose in a cycle of Giotto-school frescoes depicting a row of saints; St. Jerome’s book, his two-peaked hat ...

Nevertheless, the frescos maintain a unity of style and content. They include Giotto’s Scrovegni Chapel fresco cycle, considered to have marked the beginning of a revolutionary development in the ...

Giotto s masterpiece is a cycle of frescoes in Padua s Scrovegni Chapel, which contain a figure some scholars think is a self-portrait. Sieni s reconstruction resembles this figure. Still ...

the very well-preserved and complete fresco could be attributed to a master from the late 1290s, a little before the cycle of Assisi" by the Florentine Giotto, said Tommaso Strinati. The work ...

Giotto (1266-1337 ... the very well-preserved and complete fresco could be attributed to a master from the late 1290s, a little before the cycle of Assisi," said Tommasso Strinati, an art historian ...

But piece by piece, a lot of the puzzle started to be filled in: St. Clare's nose in a cycle of Giotto-school frescoes depicting a row of saints; St. Jerome's book, his two-peaked hat, his ...