We’re going old school in this Christmas episode as we look at “Madonna and Child” by Giotto di Bondone, a guy who got so famous he goes by one name, Giotto! Kind of like Cher! 

We’ll find out how he revolutionized religious art in Florence at the end of the Middle Ages. Like so many of the writers around him, he looked to the past in order to move forward. And you’ll find out the lengths I go to for my listeners!

SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

 

Episode theme is “Angels We Have Heard on High” by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3368-angels-we-have-heard-on-high

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

 

Artwork information https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.397.html

”Distorting the Madonna in Medieval Art“ (Smart History article)

Cecilia Frosini lecture (video)

Giotto information https://smarthistory.org/giotto-the-ognissanti-madonna/

https://www.theartstory.org/artist/giotto/

Arena Chapel frescoeshttps://smarthistory.org/giotto-arena-scrovegni-chapel-part-1-of-4/

Cimabué, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cimabue_-_The_Madonna_in_Majesty_(Maest%C3%A0)_-_WGA04932.jpg

“The Decameron” (Internet Archive link)

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