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800 Years After St. Francis’s Death, His Story Gets A Vivid New Restoration
800 Years After St. Francis’s Death, His Story Gets A Vivid New Restoration

(ANALYSIS) The frescoes, located in the Bardi Chapel of Florence’s Basilica of Santa Croce, take up a major place in Christian art relative to their physical footprint. Giotto is routinely credited as the artist who broke decisively from the flat conventions of medieval painting and introduced something recognizably modern.

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