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That supports a tradition at the Church of Santa Croce that a dwarf who appears in one of the frescoes is a self-portrait of Giotto. On the other hand, a man wearing a white hat who appears in the Last Judgement at Padua is also said to be a portrait of Giotto. The appearance of this man conflicts with the image in Santa Croce, in regards to ...
Dante's house museum in Florence. The house has been significantly altered since Dante's time. [15] Alleged Dante portrait attributed to Giotto, in the chapel of the Bargello palace, Florence. [16] It was painted c. 1335 and has been restored. [17] Dante was born in Florence, Republic of Florence, in what is now Italy. The exact date of his ...
Plaster cast of a portrait sculpture of Enrico Scrovegni, by Marco Romano, 1317–1320, in the sacristy of the Scrovegni Chapel, Padua. Enrico Scrovegni was a Paduan money-lender who lived around the time of Giotto and Dante.
However, a posthumous portrait of Dante was included in the Paradise section of the frescoes. [6] Another claim was that the theological program followed by Giotto is based on St Thomas Aquinas , whereas Pisani claims it to be wholly Augustinian.
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Portrait of Dante Alighieri by Cristofano dell'Altissimo, Uffizi Gallery Florence, 1552–1568. It was during this period of instability that authors such as Dante and Petrarch lived, and the first stirrings of Renaissance art were to be seen, notably in the realism of Giotto. Paradoxically, some of these disasters would help establish the ...
In 1450, Gozzoli received his first major independent commission from the monastery of S. Francesco in Montefalco. There, he filled the choir chapel with three registers of episodes from the life of St Francis of Assisi and various accessories, including portrait heads of Dante, Petrarch and Giotto.