LECTURE 2 "Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto - Altarpieces for the Virgin Mary & St.
Giotto: The Most Excellent Painter - Part II
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"Cimabue, Duccio and Giotto - Altarpieces for the Virgin Mary and St. Peter"
Around 1320, Giotto was called to Rome by Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi to paint an altarpiece for the old Basilica of St. Peter. The painting, known as “The Stefaneschi Altarpiece” was located either on the high altar or the canon’s altar of the basilica. Presenting a complex iconography on both sides of the painting celebrating Saints Peter and Paul – patron saints of Rome – and Jesus Christ, Giotto created one the richest and most celebrated altarpieces of the Middle Ages.
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LECTURE 3 "The Bardi Chapel"
Between 1317 and 1337, Giotto painted the walls of the two principal family chapels in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. The Bardi Chapel contains six scenes from the “Life of St. Francis,” with a seventh scene – the most important of St. Francis’ life: “St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata”...
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LECTURE 4 "The Peruzzi Chapel"
The fresco cycle in the Peruzzi Chapel was either produced simultaneously with or shortly after the completion of the Bardi Chapel. Here Giotto painted scenes from the lives of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, in honor of the chapel’s patron Giovanni Peruzzi. Executed in the “a s...
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LECTURE 5 "Giotto's Late Works and Ar...
In the last decade of his life, while continuing his work in the Bardi and Peruzzi Chapels in Santa Croce, Giotto also executed the altarpiece of the Baroncelli Chapel in the same church. In 1329, he was called to Naples by King Robert of Anjou. Then in 1334, he was named capomaestro of the “Camp...
