Florence saw the hands of a young, but already talented Giotto di Bondone, realize the first, timid works.

It was Cimabue who discovered him, while he was perhaps portraying his sheep grazing on a pebble, and he took him to workshop with him and together they traveled to the Italian capitals of art.

But it is at the height of his rise that even the Venetian lands benefit from his admirable ability: in fact, in Padua he creates frescoes in the interior of the Scrovegni Chapel, completed in the early 1300s and strongly desired by the political figure Enrico degli Scrovegni, that's a place that still attracts visitors from all over the world.

The intense blue of the sky enraptures the gaze. An emotional thread that binds men to everything, to the infinite, to the incomprehensible. The masterpiece of the artist, who thus gives a pearl to the city of Padua that we can, fortunately, admire in all its splendor, in the simple room made majestic by the painted figures.

In Florence, his hometown, we discover equally significant works of #Giotto, among which stands out the wooden crucifix in the Church of Santa Maria Novella. The style is unmistakable and suggests a Giotto in his youthful phase. The very high harmony is the same reported in Padua and is the one that the master manages to convey in the faces, colors, and architecture of his works.