Renaissance painter’s fresco cycle depicting the life of the saint in Assisi, Italy, took an innovative, vibrant approach to ...

I know it’s greedy, but I am choosing the whole Scrovegni Chapel – sometimes referred to as Giotto’s Chapel – in Padua as my favourite painting. There are 100 scenes and images, all worthy of a ...

Modern critics like to decentre famous names and discover neglected talent among their contemporaries. Giotto was a genius ... Clark dwelt on some of the paintings that most captivated me ...

The greatest paintings usually magnify the beauty and morals of the civilizations that produced them, inspiring countless other artists, writers and satirists for centuries to come. Artists such ...