Example sentences for: giotto

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  • In 38 pictures arranged in three rows under a starry heavenly-blue vault, Giotto tells the story of Mary and Jesus.

  • Local master artist Tintoretto (1518–1594) won a competition to create for the hall some 50 paintings (the largest collection of his work anywhere) over a period of 23 years, a series comparable in grandeur to Giotto’s frescoes in Padua’s Scrovegni Chapel or Florence’s Brancacci chapel by Masaccio.

  • The superb frescoes of the life of Jesus in the St. Mary Magdalen Chapel (closest to altar on the right nave) and of St. Francis’s vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience above the elegant Gothic high altar are attributed to Giotto (1307) and his workshop.

  • But Assisi’s frescoes of the saint’s life, painted by Cimabue and disciples of Giotto (which barely survived the severe earthquake of 1997), proved an immensely effective act of artistic propaganda against the prevalent libertinism and heresy.

  • A building boom underlined the prosperity: Giotto’s Campanile was at last completed, as were Ghiberti’s great baptistery doors, and Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral.


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