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Sirén, Osvald, Giotto and Some of His Followers (English translation by Frederic Schenck). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1917. 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.
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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. [ 1 ]
A new English translation and commentary with Italian Transcription is the standard modern translation. Thompson, D. V., Jr. (1932–3) Cennino d’Andrea Cennini da Colle di Val d’Elsa. Il Libro dell’Arte, 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press. [Edition and English translation]
Stefano instructed his son while Maso was studying the works of the great Giotto. Since Maso formed his style on Giotto's works, he became known as Giottino, the "little Giotto". [1] The frescoes in the chapel of San Silvestro in the Florentine Basilica of Santa Croce are attributed to Giottino.
In his Le Vite, Giorgio Vasari mentions the work in a transept chapel of the church of San Francesco in Pisa.Despite having been disputed, the work is now generally recognized to be by Giotto, being also signed; it has been dated from shortly before or after the Stories of St. Francis in Assisi, around 1295–1300.
Padua Crucifix (c. 1300-1305). The Padua Crucifix (Italian: Crocifisso di Padova) is a painting in tempera on poplar panel by Giotto of c. 1303–1305. [1] Originally hanging in the centre of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, above the latticework of the iconostasis, it was probably contemporaneous with his frescoes in the same chapel. [2]
Giotto made the closest approach to Halley's Comet and provided the best data for this comet. [13] Giotto was the first spacecraft: to provide detailed pictures of a cometary nucleus. [14] to make a close flyby of two comets. Young and active comet Halley could be compared to old comet Grigg–Skjellerup.