By Giotto

Artwork: Crucifixion (detail)

Artist: Giotto di Bondone (c. 1266-1337)

About: 1303-1305

Medium and Support: #Fresco

Location: Padua, Arena Chapel (Capella degli Scrovegni all’ Arena, Italy

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“In the Arena Chapel in Padua, his masterpiece, the painter become the designer of space, walls and vault – he placed himself in the position of architect. But he also thought like an architect: his scenes and architectural details are painted as illuminated by a single light source, one identical with the main window in the west wall.

There is something paradoxical about the changes which Giotto wrought vis-à-vis the painting of the past. Figures in earlier frescoes appeared distanced and unfamiliar, lined up as if a shop window with no real eye contact or interaction.”(#ourcollectionofbooks|page#13)

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