Giotto was not only a great painter, but a revolutionary. He was the first artist of the Middle Ages to give a soul to the characters of his paintings and frescoes. With Giotto, for the first time in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

PADUA, Italy — We were advised to arrive an hour early for what we soon learned was the best 15 minutes in art history. Not that the Scrovegni Chapel is that hard to find. It is on the outskirts of ...