Lives Over Time

Giotto di Bondone, Legend of St Francis: 5. Renunciation of Wordly Goods, 1297–1299, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giotto_bisschop.jpg … [Read more...] about sultan-and-the-saint-film-giotto-di-bondone-legend-of-st-francis-5-renunciation-of-worldy-goods

Giotto di Bondone, The Expulsion of the Devils from Arezzo, 1297-1299, Saint Francis of Assisi, Assisi, http://www.travelingintuscany.com/art/giotto/expulsionofthedemons.htm … [Read more...] about sultan-and-the-saint-film-giotto-di-bondone-expulsion-of-the-devils-from-arezzo

This fresco by Benozzo Gozzoli (1421–1497) is entitled St. Francis of Assisi—Trial by Fire before the Sultan. It was painted in 1452 for the church in San Francesco, Montefalco, Italy. (https://www.wga.hu/html_m/g/gozzoli/2montefa/10scene.html) … [Read more...] about sultan-and-the-saint-film-fresco-st-francis-of-assisi-trial-by-fire-before-the-sultan

This is one of a series of 28 frescoes (paintings on wet plaster) that tell the Legend of Saint Francis, used to decorate the Upper Church of the Basilica di San Francesco in Assisi, painted between 1297 and 1300. Scholars believe that Tuscan Italian artist Giotto di Bondone (d. 1337) either painted … [Read more...] about sultan-and-the-saint-film-fresco-legend-of-saint-francis-upper-church-basilica-di-san-francesco

Part of the altarpiece in the Bardi Chapel of Santa Croce Church in the city of Florence, Italy. … [Read more...] about sultan-and-the-saint-film-bardi-chapel-santa-croce-church-storyboard-element