A precursor of the Renaissance and the first painter to depart from the formulated Byzantine style, Giotto di Bondone won praise from Dante in the Divine Comedy and Boccaccio's The Decameron. Giotto ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

When Giotto di Bondone first envisioned what would become one of the signature structures of Florence, Italy, he may have had no notion of something called claustrophobia. Europeans in the 14th ...

CHRIST walked the earth as a human being; yet for 13 centuries thereafter he was painted as a weightless, spiritual being, more in his divine aspect than in his human one. Then Giotto di Bondone, a ...