Giotto - Finestre sull'Arte

The Greccio nativity scene of St. Francis according to Giotto

In one of the scenes frescoed by Giotto in the cycle of the Stories of St. Francis that adorns the walls of the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, one can see the saint, kneeling in front of a kind of box, with a child in his hands: this is the...
Read more...

Last episode of Wonders: Alberto Angela among the treasures of Padua, Herculaneum and Spoleto

Alberto Angela closes this season of Wonders, the Peninsula of Treasures between Padua, Herculaneum and Spoleto. The episode will air tonight on Rai1 at 9:25 pm. It will start in Padua, from Palazzo della Ragione, one of the city's symbolic places, ...
Read more...

Dante dialogues with Giotto at the Museo degli Eremitani in the sign of the contemporary

Entitled A riveder le stelle (To See the Stars Again ), the contemporary art exhibition running until January 30, 2022 at the Museo degli Eremitani in Padua intends to ideally dialogue with Giotto 's frescoes, which from July 2021 have been included ...
Read more...

Giotto, the Santa Maria Novella Crucifix: the first real Christ on the Cross in Italian painting

In the Florentine church of Santa Maria Novella is a work that, at the end of the 13th century, marked a caesura in the history of Italian art. Entering the church, raising our gaze along the nave, we can in fact admire a painted cross belong...
Read more...

A riveder le stelle: contemporary artists pay homage to Dante and Giotto in Padua

From Oct. 30, 2021 to Jan. 30, 2022, the Museo Eremitani in Padua presents the contemporary art exhibition A riveder le stelle, organized by the Cultural Department of the City of Padua, in collaboration with Antonio Menon's The Bank Contemporary Art...
Read more...

Giotto, Dante and Cimabue arrive on the Gulf of Poets. Lia Museum exhibition.

Lunigiana, as is well known, is a land dotted with Dante's traces, albeit fragmentary and with few certain data. We do know for sure that Dante, on the morning of October 6, 1306, was in Sarzana, in Piazza della Calcandola, today's Piazza de...
Read more...

La Spezia, Giotto and Dante's relationship evoked by great masterpieces on display

From October 2 to January 23, 2022, the "Amedeo Lia" Museum of La Spezia is hosting the exhibition Dante and Giotto. Dialogue and suggestion, curated by Andrea Marmori and Francesca Giorgi. Promoted by the Municipality of La Spezia, the exhibition is...
Read more...

Giotto's work that Dante probably saw: the Badia Polyptych

In his Florence, Dante Alighieri lived not far from the church of Badia, where one of the great protagonists of the painting scene contemporary to him, Giotto (Florence?, c. 1267 - Florence, 1337), had worked, and it was probably here, befor...
Read more...