As I pressed my sermon’s pages across the book’s valley, I couldn’t keep them from sliding into the groove.

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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 ...

The first thing you should know about the glorious new show "Florence at the Dawn of the Renaissance" at the J. Paul Getty Museum is that seven works by Giotto di Bondone — considered one of art ...

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It’s a familiar ensemble ““ an extremely large Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, while a brigade of disproportionately smaller saints and patrons frame the throne, all with shiny gold discs ...

The people he painted were beautiful even though his own children were ugly. That’s what Giotto’s contemporaries said about him. A Nativity scene that the Italian artist created for the Scrovegni ...

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 ...

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 Florentine ...