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A number of 14th-century sources (Riccobaldo Ferrarese, Francesco da Barberino, 1312–1313) testify to Giotto's presence at the Arena Chapel's site. The fresco cycle can be dated with a good approximation to a series of documentary testimonies: the purchase of the land took place on 6 February 1300; the bishop of Padua, Ottobono dei Razzi ...
Giotto did away with many aspects of Byzantine art that would flatten the painting. Within Cimabue's Santa Trinita Maestà , there is the use of gold tracing to delineate the folds of the fabric. In contrast to this, Giotto's fabric folds are more realistic, and instead of lines he used light, shadow, and color to create the appearance of fabric.
Giotto, whose greatest work is the cycle of the Life of Christ at the Arena Chapel in Padua, was seen by the 16th-century biographer Giorgio Vasari as "rescuing and restoring art" from the "crude, traditional, Byzantine style" prevalent in Italy in the 13th century.
Tintori, Leonetto, and Meiss, Millard, The Painting of the Life of St. Francis in Assisi, with Notes on the Arena Chapel, New York University Press, 1962. Wolf, Norbert, Giotto di Bondone, 1267–1337: The Renewal of Painting. Los Angeles: Taschen, 2006. ISBN 978-3-8228-5160-9.
Benozzo Gozzoli, work includes frescoes in the Magi Chapel and paintings of saints and Mother Mary [258] [259] Matthias Grünewald, German Catholic religious artist [260] Guercino, The Burial of St. Petronilla [261] Ignaz Günther, Bavarian Rococo sculptor and woodcarver best remembered for his work in churches [262] [263]
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"In June 2001, following a preparation study lasting over 20 years, the Istituto Centrale ..started a full-scale restoration of Giotto's frescoes under the late Giuseppe Basile's technical direction. In 2000 the consolidation and restoration of the external surfaces had been completed and the adjacent "Corpo Tecnologico Attrezzato" (CTA) had ...
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