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Madonna and Child, about 1320 - 1330 by Giotto di Bondone (Image courtesy National Gallery of Art; Washington; Samuel H. Kress Collection) The first thing you should know about the glorious new show ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...