On a church visit to Assisi Woolf writes: ‘When we had inspected the church ... ‘with its twenty-eight marvellous frescoes by Giotto and his pupils – not often so summarily dismissed.’ So reading this ...

The frescoes were too loud in color, critics said. Too modern. Too thin and flat. The frescoes, the club members complained, were “out of harmony” and ruining their enjoyment of their garden ...

Kenneth Clark, in his still potent “Civilisation,” rightly singled out the Giotto frescoes in Padua—telling the Christ story from birth to murder to light restored—and Handel’s ...

Designed by Giotto in the early 14th century, this ornate 277-foot high bell tower is part of the renowned Duomo in central Florence's Piazza del Duomo. Although it is known as Giotto's Bell Tower ...

If you're an architecture buff, take some time to check out the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, which was constructed beginning in 1869. Located a block east of the Santa Fe Plaza ...

and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.