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Across the lower register of the Upper Basilica in Assisi, the Life of St. Francis cycle recounts events from the saint's life through a sequence of frescoes. The paintings belong to the late thirteenth-century development of Italian religious art. Their narrative connects Francis's spiritual callin...

A close confrontation between Christ and Judas anchors Giotto's Kiss of Judas in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Painted around 1305, the fresco depicts the betrayal of Christ amid a crowded arrest scene. Judas's enclosing cloak draws attention to the central encounter, while surrounding faces and ra...

Giotto’s Lamentation over the Dead Christ, painted circa 1305 in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel, is a pivotal fresco showcasing early Renaissance innovation. Buon fresco technique creates vibrant color and detail depicting the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist mourning Jesus after his crucifixion. This...

The Ognissanti Madonna is a large tempera-and-gold panel painted by Giotto di Bondone around 1310, probably for the Church of Ognissanti in Florence, and now in the Uffizi Gallery. It shows the Virgin and Child enthroned beneath a Gothic canopy and surrounded by angels and saints. Giotto gives the t...

The Bardi Chapel fresco cycle is a group of paintings by Giotto and his workshop in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence, generally dated to the early 14th century. Dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi, the cycle depicts episodes including his renunciation of worldly goods, appearance before the...

The Santa Trinità Maestà is a large tempera and gold altarpiece painted by Cimabue around 1290 to 1300 for the church of Santa Trinita in Florence. It depicts the Virgin enthroned with the Christ Child, surrounded by angels, while prophets appear beneath the throne. The work retains Byzantine conven...

Cimabue painted a major cycle of frescoes in the Upper Church of the Basilica of San Francesco at Assisi during the late thirteenth century. The surviving scenes include biblical narratives and images associated with the Virgin, the apostles, and the Apocalypse, combining Byzantine-derived figures w...

Giotto's Peruzzi Chapel fresco cycle (c. 1320) in Santa Croce, Florence, illustrates scenes from the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist and was particularly admired by Michelangelo for its monumental figure style.

The Isaac Master frescoes are two late 13th-century scenes in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco at Assisi depicting episodes involving Isaac, Jacob and Esau. The unidentified painter takes a conventional name from these works, whose figures occupy convincingly modeled interiors and display unusual...

The Bologna Polyptych is a multi-panel altarpiece painted by Giotto and his workshop around 1330, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. Its central image of the Virgin and Child is flanked by standing saints beneath pointed Gothic arches. The work combines a traditional devotional format with...

The Maestà formerly associated with Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna is an enthroned Virgin and Child attributed to Cimabue and generally dated to the late thirteenth century. Mary appears frontally on an elaborate throne, surrounded by angels arranged in ordered tiers. The painting retains the form...