Giotto Frescos In Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence Editorial Photo

Detail of the fresco `the life of san Francis` by Giotto in the Bardi Chapel, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe.Giotto is considered the `Proto-Renaissance` artist, the man who started working in the style that put Florence on the map artistically and revolutionized Western art. Florence`s church of Santa Croce houses two important fresco cycles by this great master.In the Peruzzi chapel, Giotto painted scenes from the life of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, while in the Bardi chapel he painted stories from the life of San Francis.