Giotto

Arena Chapel frescoes

The painter who broke with Byzantine flatness and gave figures weight, emotion, and space. The Arena Chapel frescoes in Padua are the first great narrative cycle in Western painting — the moment painting became dramatic.

Key works

• Arena Chapel frescoes~1305— Life of Christ and the Virgin
  Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
• Ognissanti Madonna~1310— Monumental, three-dimensional
  Uffizi, Florence

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