ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) -They are using medical syringes in Assisi these days, but it has nothing to do with the pandemic. Restorers are using them to save priceless 700-year-old frescoes by Giotto.

ROME (Reuters) - Art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi, church officials said on ...

Artists who followed in giot-to’s footsteps were wowed by his ability to depict human emotions in actual settings. Leonardo da Vinci said Giotto “not only surpassed the masters of his own time, but ...

A devilish head in the clouds of a Giotto mural appears. (via dailymail.co.uk) In today’s dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that “art restorers have discovered ...

In his Lives of the Artists, Vasari credits Giotto as having no less than the status of nature itself: deserving to be imitated by painters everywhere. Giotto’s revolutionary fresco cycle in the ...

ASSISI, Italy -- St. Jerome's white beard is largely gone, his rich cloak looks like it was devoured by moths and the roll of writing paper on his desk has disappeared. But in a kind of restoration ...

The fresco cycles housed in eight complexes of buildings within the old city centre of Padua illustrate how, over the course of the 14th century, different artists, starting with Giotto, introduced ...