Your favourite kiss in art? Perhaps it's Gustav Klimt's. The clinch is close. The couple are enveloped and almost demate-rialising under the mass of gold-ornamented fabric. But it's true that their ...

Madonna and Child, about 1320 - 1330 by Giotto di Bondone (Image courtesy National Gallery of Art; Washington; Samuel H. Kress Collection) The first thing you should know about the glorious new show ...

It’s a familiar ensemble ““ an extremely large Virgin Mary holding the infant Christ, while a brigade of disproportionately smaller saints and patrons frame the throne, all with shiny gold discs ...

CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a ...

A precursor of the Renaissance and the first painter to depart from the formulated Byzantine style, Giotto di Bondone won praise from Dante in the Divine Comedy and Boccaccio's The Decameron. Giotto ...

The people he painted were beautiful even though his own children were ugly. That’s what Giotto’s contemporaries said about him. A Nativity scene that the Italian artist created for the Scrovegni ...

When Giotto di Bondone first envisioned what would become one of the signature structures of Florence, Italy, he may have had no notion of something called claustrophobia. Europeans in the 14th ...