Giotto conceived a monumental undertaking that would illustrate, among other things, scenes from the life of Christ and, in one of his most famous works, the Last Judgment, which takes up the ...

There is no finer fresco cycle by Giotto, or by pretty much anyone else anywhere, although in fact the chapel houses two, showing the lives of the Virgin and of Christ, with a Last Judgement filling ...

The last weeks of Ordinary Time focus on eschatology, the Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell). Before the post-Vatican II reform of the Lectionary (the Book of Biblical Readings for Mass ...

Comparing Giotto’s “Last Judgment” with Michelangelo’s version in the Sistine Chapel is a way to see clearly how Renaissance painting evolved over the centuries. Although it is unknown ...

“resembles the action afterwards… of Michelangelo in his Last Judgement”. For Giotto, anger is an organising energy; everything in his work orbits around the centrifugal force of the ...