GIOTTO di Bondone (b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze) No. 32 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 16. Christ before Caiaphas 1304-06 Fresco, 200 x 185 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua The scene of Christ before Caiaphas provides yet another demonstration of the artist's increasing independence from the pictorial conventions of his day. This is a night scene in which a torch, now darkened because of alterations in the pigment, illuminates the wooden ceiling from beneath, an effect of unprecedented subtlety in a period when most artists continued to adhere to the anti-naturalistic ca

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GIOTTO di Bondone (b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze) No. 32 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 16. Christ before Caiaphas 1304-06 Fresco, 200 x 185 cm Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua The scene of Christ before Caiaphas provides yet another demonstration of the artist's increasing independence from the pictorial conventions of his day. This is a night scene in which a torch, now darkened because of alterations in the pigment, illuminates the wooden ceiling from beneath, an effect of unprecedented subtlety in a period when most artists continued to adhere to the anti-naturalistic canons of medieval painting. *** Keywords: ************* Author: GIOTTO di Bondone Title: No. 32 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 16. Christ before Caiaphas Time-line: 1301-1350 School: Italian Form: painting Type: religious

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