"St.Francis of Assisi Receiving Stigmata"

Without a technical knowledge of perspective or anatomy, Giotto indicates space and, in the seated monk particularly, weight. Giotto fully explores the transmission of human emotions beyond the rhetoric of gesture, which inspired other Renaissance artists. Giotto left behind the rigid stylization of medieval art and broke new ground in terms of realism. In his fresco painting we can see an impetus, which developed during the Renaissance into a lasting tradition.