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Who painted it?

Who painted “Lamentation”?

“Lamentation” was painted by Giotto in 1305. Where to see it: Scrovegni Chapel.

Early Renaissance · Fresco

What to look for

Giotto: solid, weighty figures with real emotion, simple stage-like settings and blue skies, a break with flat Byzantine painting.

Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Wikipedia

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More by Giotto

• “Madonna Enthroned”, 1300–1305
• “Stefaneschi Triptych”, 1320
• “Navicella”, 1330
• “Last Judgment”, 1306
• “Baroncelli Polyptych”, 1328
• “Seven panels with scenes from the Life of Christ”, 1320
• “St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata”, 1297
• “Flight into Egypt”, 1305