Crème de la crème Art - Monroe Dupuis

     Giotto, an Italian painter from Florence, was a talented man indeed. From his many works you can see the sentence color and emotion springing from each painting. You can clearly see that he was influenced by the religion surrounding Florence. He uses many depictions of Jesus and saints in his pieces. He was born and dies in the late Gothic/Proto Renaissance.

One reason for this is the belief that frightening figures could scare away evil spirits, and they were put on the outsides of buildings to do just that.

Greeks seemed to care more about the ritual aspect of these buildings. (Glorifying Gods, etc.) When Romans thought more oh how to further their empire with civic buildings.  Romans kept "death masks" in their home of ancestors, all of these were made of wax. The Colosseum is one of the largest buildings in the world and was laid out perfectly using methods stadiums use now.