For all of us travelling today, scenes from his Christmas cycle to keep us company.
The Magi & the Holy family journey in fear & faith, towards a star, a baby, a refuge.
Arena chapel, Padua, 1305

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Today, in anticipation of Xmas, we continue to journey with Giotto towards the Incarnation.

Here Mary is betrothed to Joseph- he places a ring on her finger. Then she returns home with her friends.

noted the ‘strange seriousness & dignity’ of their actions.
Padua, 1305

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Giotto - La Natività
(det)

“È Natale ogni volta che rimani in silenzio per ascoltare l’altro .
È Natale ogni volta che riconosci i tuoi limiti e la tua debolezza”.

Madre Teresa di Calcutta

I miei auguri a tutti

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The brilliant angels of Pietro Cavallini (1259 - 1330) emanate energy .The angels in Cavallini's last judgement have "multi-colour wings, like youths full of hope and good will." Cavallini, like Giotto, was a pioneer who led art from the Byzantium era into the Renaissance.

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"Where are her organs?" drawing i made last night. Done with copic markers (skin tones) Color pencils (Faber castell polychromos and one Giotto) and some gouache and acrylic.

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"Bir dostun açtığı yaralar güvenilirdir" der Eski Ahit, "...ama düşmanın öpüşleri aldatıcıdır."

1. Giotto, The Arrest of Christ, 1304-6
2. Lodovico Carracci, The Kiss of Judas, 1589–90
3. Caravaggio, The Taking of Christ, 1602
4. Constantin Meunier, The Kiss of Judas, 1860

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總是不自覺地讓綱吉染上Giotto的顏色♡∠( ᐛ 」∠)_
.........這話怎麼有種色色的感覺?2333

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The Apparition at the Chapter House at Arles, 1300

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September 26, 1997, a series of hits the Italian province of Umbria, 11 people are killed in the town of Assisi - Fresco by Giotto (ca. 1200) in the basilica of San Francesco in Assisi showing the aftermath of a quake https://t.co/iH6EViyKbs

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"Stigmatization of St Francis" by Giotto di Bondone, circa
1295 - 1300. At the Louvre Museum, Paris

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Originals Space wallpapers
1:Giotto Comet Halley explorer
2:Voyager
3:STEREO
4:JWST

Use it on your smartphone's home screen or lock screen.

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