Giotto, Arena Chapel

We seem to have totally forgotten the difference between the ‘before Giotto and after Giotto’ He managed to adopt the visual language of the sculptors but in two dimensional work. This was unheard of in his time.
Giotto's master work is the Arena Chapel cycle of the Cappella degli Scrovegni in Padua’ depicting the life of the Virgin and the passion of Christ and completed around 1305. He gave us over has 100 major scenes with the beautifully sculptural figures set in realistic settings. This is much too small a space to describe all of these wonderful wall paintings, besides it has been done much better than I could ever do by very learned