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Andrea di Bartolo - The Way to Calvary, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

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«Beato Angelico» in Venice. A unprecedented exhibition celebrating Fra Angelico.

Video recommendation: Von Cimabue bis Giotto (in GERMAN) by ARTE

PAINTED GOLD. El Greco and Art between Crete and Venice

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The Return of Fra Angelico’s Fiesole Altarpiece

Following a monumental conservation campaign supported by Friends of Florence, the early Renaissance masterpiece returns to its original sacred home in San Domenico, bridging Gothic origins and 1

Gold-ground Art Has Its Own Subreddit Now

There is a new corner of Reddit dedicated exclusively to gold-ground art: r/GoldGroundArt. It is a community for anyone who finds themselves drawn to the luminous world of medieval and early Renaissance pane

If you want to understand why American museums hold so many Italian gold-ground panel paintings — and why they are distributed so unexpectedly across the country, from Birmingham to El Paso to Seattle — there is one name you need to know:

Did you know? The impact of this single panel can hardly be overstated. Giotto's groundbreaking template—known as the archetype of the Christus patiens (the suffering Christ)—rapidly spread throughout Tuscany and Central Italy, setting an

Recommended publication:
«Christian Art of the Near East»
Edited by Raphaëlle Ziadé

Abbeville Press, Publishing date: Oct. 2026, 592 pages, Hardback, ISBN: 9780789215284

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Did you know that Cimabue discovered Giotto as a boy drawing a sheep on a flat stone, with a piece of chalk, and was so stunned by his natural gift that he took him on as an apprentice?

The story comes from Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists (155

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