Uffizi Gallery, June 02 – Dicember 08 2008

Giotto, one of the greatest fourteenth century painters, arrived on the Florentine scene at the end of the 1200’s and founded the “Giottesque school” reinvigorating fresco production and more with his creative and lively style. The exhibit covers a 35-year time period starting from Giotto’s death to the foundation of a new artistic current called “glacial”, due to the arrival of the plague (1348). This was an era of decadence when artwork by the Orcagna brothers experienced short-lived popularity, leaving the stage to the return of the Giottesque current at the end of the century.The exhibit will attempt to prove the transformation of the lesser known art of this period. Works emphasize the levels of this era’s artists through different painted, sculpted and miniature subjects.