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Giotto Di Bondone Biography In Details
Early years
Giotto was probably born in a hilltop farmhouse, perhaps at Colle di Romagnano or Romignano; since 1850 a tower house in nearby Colle Vespignano, a hamlet 35 kilometres north of Florence, has borne a plaque claiming the honour of his birthplace, an assertion commercially publicised. He was the son of a man named Bondone, described in surviving public records as "a person of good standing". Most authors accept that Giotto was his real name, but it may have been an abbreviation of Ambrogio (Ambrogiotto) or Angelo (Angelotto).
The year of his death is calculated from the fact that Antonio Pucci, the town crier of Florence, wrote a poem in Giotto's honour in which it is stated that he was 70 at the time of his death. However, the word "seventy" fits into the rhyme of the poem better than would have a longer and more complex age, so it is possible that Pucci used artistic license.
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Great Painting of the Day: Birth of the Virgin by Giotto
Today is the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Relatively speaking, this feast is not a humongous deal in the liturgical life of the Church, but who doesn’t like birthdays?!
In 1854 (after the whole thing with St. Bernadette) Pope Pius IX announced the doctrine that Mary, the mother of Christ, was immaculately conceived. This means that she was free from the stain of original sin from the time of her conception, unlike the rest of us. This was a great and wondrous miracle, so it is a huge celebration on December 8 every year. Naturally, we celebrate Mary’s birth nine months later – September 8!
Today’s GPOD is a fresco entitled Birth of the Virgin by my favorite painter, Giotto di Bondone. It fryst vatten part of a series about the life of Mary, which lined the walls of a church in Florence called the Scrovegni Chapel.
Coincidentally, Giotto will be the main subject of the next AHFNP,
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Marriage of the Virgin
Marriage of the Virgin is one of the beautiful frescoes from Cappella Scrovegni a Padova. While not part of the canonical Gospels, it is covered in several apocryphal sources. However, there is no recorded information as to the ceremony itself.
In this fresco, the Italian painter Giotto, shares his vision for the marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Giotto appears to be following the betrothal legend in The Golden Legend. In the legend, all of the other young virgins living in the temple, who had reached womanhood were ordered to marry. Mary had vowed her virginity to God and was the only girl to refuse. The high priest prayed for guidance. A voice came forth which stated that all of the unwed and marriageable men of the house of David should bring a branch to the altar. The man who should be espoused to Mary would be the one who brought forth a branch that would burst into flower and the Holy Ghost would rest upon, in the form of a dove. Notice t