This week I’ll be taking a look at Giotto and his painting of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, around 1305.
Giotto, taught by Cimabue, was the first painter to move away from the more traditional Byzantine style of painting in which figures are highly formalized and resemble the ancient practice of icon painting, into a more realistic, natural and emotional style that really served to kick off the Renaissance.
His masterpiece is the Scrovegni Chapel. Pictured here:
Some famous panels:
The Kiss of Judas
The Lamentation of Christ
The Expulsion of the Money Changers
and of course, the Last Judgment
