In his recent “The artist of the soul” (Neri Pozza, 2022, pp. 176, also e-book) Masi narrates Giotto's life with the rhythm of a novel, or rather of a medieval chronicle.

Although dating these paintings can be tricky (as can the attribution of authorship, since many scholars doubt whether Giotto played any role), most guesses place their creation within a few ...

Completed by Giotto in 1305, the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, in Padua, Italy, upended traditional art of the Middle Ages and set the stage for the Italian Renaissance.

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 ...

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 ...

Wars may come & go, but the cannonading over the question whether there is or is not a U. S. school in art goes on forever. Meanwhile, art appreciation in the U. S. has come of age with a bang. In ...