When I first saw Giotto’s fresco cycle “The Legend of St. Francis” in the upper church of the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi—a small Italian town two hours from Rome by train—I ...

Suzanna Murawski on Giotto’s frescoes, the university’s origins & an embattled Klimt.

It predates the frescoes at the Basilica of St Francis of Assisi by the Florentine painter Giotto, who is considered to be the father of Western art. Giotto (1266-1337) is credited with departing from ...

But lately the people of Assisi have had something to marvel ... Visitors to the reopened basilica will find Giotto's 28 frescoes on the life of St. Francis fully cleaned and renovated.

ASSISI, Italy - St. Jerome's white ... much of the rest of the Giotto fresco is back on the soaring ceiling of St. Francis Basilica, five years after an earthquake sent the masterpiece crashing ...

Maestà di Assisi was last restored in 1973, and has since survived a significant double earthquake in 1997 that destroyed parts of the basilica and numerous frescoes in other parts of the church.

Fresco “St. Francis receiving the Pardon of Assisi” by Friedrich Overbeck (1829), over the entrance of the Portiuncola in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, Italy. Credit ...

A fading fresco by the 13th-century artist Cimabue ... Located in the right transept of the Lower Church of the Basilica of San Francesco di Assisi, a lavishly decorated pilgrimage site in the ...