Giotto

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Erisava Staff Jul 26

Madonna with the Child by Giotto, 1325

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Madonna with the Child

National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org

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This used to be shown as the middle piece of a bigger altarpiece — five panels, according to the National Gallery — until they got separated somewhere along the way. It was even catalogued as someone else's work for a while before curators settled on who actually painted it.

Erisava Staff Jul 25

The Adoration of the Magi by Giotto, 1320

The Adoration of the Magi

Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org

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This one's part of a set — seven small panels showing scenes from the life of Christ, according to the Met, though nobody's fully sure which church they were first painted for.