In his masterful Adoration of the Magi, completed in 1304, the Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone reproduced the iconic Christmas scene where the travelers from the East meet baby Jesus. Up in the ...

The devil's face is tucked away in one corner of a block of swirling clouds A devil's face hidden for centuries has been revealed in a fresco by the Italian renaissance master Giotto. An Italian art ...

When visitors look up at the ceiling of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy, they often suddenly fall silent. Painted above are the golden stars and the enchanting blue skies of a heaven envisioned ...