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Ji'(..-h in Rom, ""

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Pai"IT fr'"'''' in

A"TIIl Cb"Pd,

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Paint; fr'xot!,

in Ani,. Pad""

and Rim;,,;

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in Flor",,,

App"inud "rchir-a

and mll'U" </

,,· ... h for catb.dr"i

and dry "f H.-rna

II-"'h in Milan

OJ,, in Norma

Jesus Before the I lig h Pries, Coif.h:as (/ ]()5...()6)

&Jut" JlnJ~ AI'''''' Chap,l Pamm

Cio,," ,"ak~ tb, /va",d "ihng .!C"ipb",' .b"lnM" /0"'" hh tb, lid <fa

JtrongNr, it iJ "b";otlJ rb.,., i, TIll ""'p'. So ,"IIch IICt,,"iry jmt/" for TfHK'

,bat j, ,u" a ,"",,,m' to pick aut J"w' «Jrr""-fiJ glana w'::ltrtU a half-

bidtlm P'''r. ';:00 bilJ jurt ikni,d king on< if hi, JiKipJ"

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im~t."" ''l,u"",Hr (lisco", .. "j Cion)

H • shcl'hcllf hor ." ... ,ching the

picture or" sJ,ttp on a rc.::l. Fro", thm

on, ... <Stem an f(~I()w,,1 a nL'W "'''',S<:, lnc Ix"..

prob,blr ",orkcd first on mos.i", in the

Flo.-cn,inc Rap''''''!'r hc~"c his intere'ts sl>rc:td

to p,inting, sculpt un: .nd ",chi",crurc. G~",,,

b"",,": ~ sut""",ful bU)ine"'11l'n tm, running.

bU)r wo.-bh"p and suw"r ting cight child'L-n.

II"wner ~ P""'P<:l'<)US 0' not ~ Giotto's

c"ntribution would h,,'c hrtn in)l"c,->ul'1ble.

Ilis ""tS"", Gmahuc had worled to ''1",:srnt

for m in its own Sl"'rt, hut it "'.,,, G iotto wh"

finallr disca,ded 1IJ".:tntinc t",dition and, in

imi .. tion of nol""ly, t"ok the 1"l<trar,,1 of

humanitr n) nCw b,cls, There isan .utho::nticitr

of <:xpn:",ion in the L'Yes of his figures and e,,:'}'

g>'stun: is c"",,,inci"g heco.u><:: ,ul bodies

inha hit th<;, clothing.

It ":'::mS no cxP""-'" ...... 'pam] with c""lr

ultrlmarine pigment ~" I",inting the A,m'

Chapel in I'.du., T he glo'ious blue 10""

in'pitt,II',ou" to describt: the effi:cr as 'l'1diant

,hr', T here i. s<' much of the outdoors in

Giott"'s worl th., it would he 'urpri'ing if he

had not 'l'mt his childh,..,d in the c<"'nt,}"Side,

And he makes uS f<..:1 th<TC is such :t thing 1<

innc:, 'P""" toO, WC an: cnc:ourJgt'] to n:sl"")(]

cmotionallr to Cl'C'y d"",il of his dr:tmatic

na"atilt:.

Giotto p,,><::d on hi. ma"c,y of fn:sc<,

I'" inting '~"""tlJ' to his pupil., Almo" • centurr

Ioter, his W'l<k in'pin:d M:&S.ccio and I.,c, still,

,\ I iehd.ngclo "' .... ],."ystudring his leper,