Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata

Angel Giotto di Bondone, who was an Italian painter and architect of the Trecento, is considered as one of the first artists that contributed to the starting of the Italian Renaissance.

His master Cimabue found him in certain occasions drawing the sheep he pastured with coal when he was working as shepherd boy. 28 scenes of the life of Saint Francis were painted at his youth. Those scenes were painted for the upper part of the Church at...

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