Giotto today


As part of its Jubilee 2000 celebration, the city of Florence has inaugurated a wonderful exhibition dedicated to Giotto, the first since 1937. Brought together in the rooms of the Accademia are a significant number of panels, as well as fragments of frescoes, painted by the master himself or by his workshop. Curated by Angelo Tartuferi together with some of the most renowned Giotto scholars—such as Luciano Bellosi, Giorgio Bonsanti, and Myklos Boskovits—the exhibition provides an opportunity to admire and directly compare several of Giotto’s most important works, as well as some of his lesser-known or recently attributed works, from museums and private collections in Europe, and in the United States.

Sadly, some of the great masterpieces are absent from this show (probably because they cannot be moved due to conservation concerns), such as the Louvre’s Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (signed “Opus Iocti Florentini”), or the Crucifix from the Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini…




Francesco Poli
(Translation by Jacqueline Smith)