Giotto - Finestre sull'Arte

Florence, visits to Bardi Chapel restoration site to take a closer look at Giotto's frescoes

In Florence, visits open to the public are resuming inside the restoration site of the Bardi Chapel, frescoed by Giotto in the early 14th century with the Stories of St. Francis. Before the completion of the work, it will thus be possible, from April...
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A playbook on Giotto introduces children to 14th-century art: here's what it's like Learn with... Giotto

Who saidfourteenth-century art was only a subject for adults? With Learn with. Giotto even the youngest children can enter the world of art masterpieces while having fun and discovering without getting bored. The game-book (also called a puzzle for t...
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Opera Laboratories is awarded hospitality services for the Santa Maria del Fiore complex

An agreement between theOpera di Santa Maria del Fiore and Opera Laboratori was signed in early April in Florence. The agreement assigns to the latter the management of a series of services that are fundamental to the daily operation of one of the mo...
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A documentary dedicated to Cimabue arrives on Rai5.

On Wednesday, April 9, at 9:15 p.m., Rai 5 will premiere the documentary film Da Cimabue a Giotto, a journey to rediscover one of the most revolutionary and at the same time forgotten painters in the history of art: Cimabue (Florence, c. 1240 - Pisa,...
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New findings and valuable information emerge from the restoration of Giotto's frescoes in the Bardi Chapel

A major restoration operation on Giotto 's frescoed Stories of St. Francis in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce in Florence is revealing new details and restoring previously unseen legibility to the Florentine master's masterpiece. The project is led b...
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When Giotto and Cimabue were in Pisa. The church of San Francesco

In 2015 ago the church of St. Francis in Pisa, the second largest in the Tuscan city after the monumental cathedral, was closed due to a partial roof collapse that compromised the safety of the holy place. Then, in the last months of 2023, the Superi...
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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...
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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, ...
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