In his "Adoration of the Magi" at Padua's Scrovegni Chapel (1304-5), Giotto di Bondone painted a realistic comet which may have been based on the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301.
In his "Adoration of the Magi" at Padua's Scrovegni Chapel (1304-5), Giotto di Bondone painted a realistic comet which may have been based on the appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301.
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