The Arena Chapel - Padua, Italy

Cappella degli Scrovegni(WikiPage), also known as the Arena Chapel

Information for the fresco on the interior wall by Giotto Di Bondone (1305-1306)
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Giotto Di Bondone (1260-1337) is the student of Giovanni Cimabue (1240-1302)

-reclaim the Rome style;, new way of thinking(draw by observe) "the visual world must be observed before it can be analyzed and understood."; reclaim realism and naturalism; using new technique such as modeling(light) and perspective(space).

Madonna Enthroned by Giotto  by Cimabue

The meaning of Renaissance: "re-birth", before Renaissance, church/religion control everything. people are told what to do in reasoning of God. Renaissance is a change in society when people are learning to reasoning what they do and asking why things are the way it is. 

- "turn visible world as source of knowledge." 

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