The likeliest explanation: Rembrandt's testimony to the quick circle Giotto tossed off to prove his accomplished mastery.
Duccio trained alongside his Florentine contemporary, Giotto, in the workshop of Cimabue, the most famous Italian painter of his time.
Later, stained-glass windows and the now famous frescoes by Giotto were added.
The plan is to transfer the Giotto Tower, Verona Tower, Little Chimney and the Engine House in Holbeck Urban Village into a trust.
For Berenson, looking at a picture was always an emotional experience, a new discovery and only then to be placed in the continuum of Italian Renaissance painting from Duccio, Masaccio and Giotto through Botticelli, Titian, Leonardo and Michelangelo.
The tallest and most ornate tower is based on a bell tower in Florence by Giotto, the smaller octagonal tower is based on a tower in Verona and the smallest tower represents a Tuscan tower as seen in San Samignano.
In the psychological expressiveness of his figures and the drama of their interactions, Gaddi shows his debt to Giotto, but his vibrant colors, stylized choreography and playful details of animals and clothing produce a lighter effect, at once mannered and naive.
WSJ: A Heavenly View From On High | Basilica of Santa Croce | Agnolo Gaddi | By Francis X. Rocca
While Giotto developed a sense of volume in his painting, Duccio stuck to the two-dimensional painting of Cimabue and surpassed it, leavening the Byzantine forms with brilliant hues and a tenderness between Madonna and Child (pictured) that could touch his viewers.
Inspired by the religious sobriety of the early-19th-century German painters who called themselves "Nazarenes, " by England's Gothic-revival movement and by the straightforward imagery of early-Renaissance painters like Giotto, they looked to the Bible, to the poetry of Keats and Tennyson and to Shakespeare for subject matter, proclaiming their intention to shun vulgar or sentimental subjects and to paint directly from nature.
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