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These remarks could be applied equally to anything in Giotto's oeuvre. The total effect of Giotto's work is one of bold religious feeling. It inspires the viewer to accept the mythology and challenges him to understand his relationship to the God both preached by the Church and challenged by heretics. Giotto's works, like Pisano's or Duccio's, certainly inspire religious feelings and thoughts. They are dignified, spiritual, and affirmative. They put into realistic terms the very humanity of the saints, prophets, patriarchs, and the Christ by depicting each as a real human being in a realistic setting. They emphasize the reality of the Faith -- which was being challenged already by men like Wyclif, and which would undergo its most formidable test yet with the coming Protestant Reformation.
In conclusion, Giotto di Bondone depicted traditional religious subjects but drew the viewer into a more personal relationship with the ideas didactically expressed in the paintings through...
Giotto began a new movement in the artistic world towards a more realistic interpretation of the Faith, which in turn was met by a more individualistic approach towards religion by revolutionary members within the Church. The art world, of course, would counter again with the Baroque movement, a movement which, like Giotto's, would team traditional narrative with novel, expansive, and dramatic expression.
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