Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
-- Giotto di Bondone
(Vatican)
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Giotto (ca. 1267-1337)
"St. Francis' sermon to the birds", detail panel from "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata", ca. 1295-1300
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Giotto
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“The way of truth is love. The Logos of God called Himself the way,
and those who travel on this way He presents, purified from every stain, to God the Father.”
~St. Maximos the Confessor
(Art: The Ascension by Giotto Di Bondone, 1305)
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Giotto - Isaac Rejecting Esau. 1290
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Die Kreuzigung, Detail der Maria Magdalena und der Jungfrau zwischen Johannes und einem weiblichen Heiligen, c.1303-05 von Giotto di Bondone
Frisch Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel, Padua, Italy
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Scenes from the Life of Christ: 10. Entry into Jerusalem, Giotto, between 1304 and 1306
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St. Francis Preaching to the Birds (detail), Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337)
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NATURE AS MIRROR
Can you feel the spiritual ecology we’ve been talking about? If you live in a fully connected world, you’re saved every day, just by playing your part. You are grabbed by God, and you belong to this universe, along with everything else. I was recently feeling discouraged and irritated, and I went out to my garden and spotted a green “stick bug” happily chewing on my flowers, almost completely camouflaged next to the stem. This bug’s simple but amazing existence completely took away all of my negativity. Life was again wondrous and miraculous.
At a recent retreat I gave on the Scottish island of Iona—which was the center point for the diffusion of Celtic Christianity—the attendees remarked how the Celtic "knot" was found on most crosses, gravestones, in manuscripts, and on jewelry. It was apparently their artistic way of saying that all is connected, everything belongs, and all is one in God. They knew about ecosystems long before we did. ALL was held together inside the divine knot that made it one.
T.S. Eliot ends his famous "Four Quartets" quoting Dame Julian, and saying the same: “And all shall be well and / All manner of thing shall be well / When the tongues of flame are in-folded / into the crowned knot of fire.”
From Richard Rohr: In the Footsteps of Francis: Awakening to Creation
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Vault of the Doctors of the Church, Upper Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, Assisi, Umbria, Italy
Painted by Giotto di Bondone, ca. 1291
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"Lamento (Il Compianto di Cristo)" - Giotto di Bondone
Et la foule de tes anges te pleurent...
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«Domingo de Ramos», de Alonso de Bonilla
Vaya para este día el soneto «Domingo de Ramos», de Alonso de Bonilla (Baeza, c. 1567-Baeza, 1642), que ilustro con el fresco La entrada en Jerusalén de Giotto di Bondone, escena 26 de su Ciclo de la vida de Cristo en la Cappella degli Scrovegni (Padua).
Más que de su intención, del cielo santola varonil capacidad movida,del nuevo Rey celebra la venida,formando sendas de uno y otro…
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Giotto - Isaac Rejecting Esau. Detail. 1290
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MWW Artwork of the Day (4/10/22)
Giotto di Bondone (Florentine, 1267-1337)
Life of Christ #10: Entry into Jerusalem (1304-06)
Fresco, 200 x 185 cm.
Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua
Around 1305 Giotto executed his most influential work, the painted decoration of the interior of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. This scene here has a solemn narrative tone. Accompanied by his disciples, Christ enters Jerusalem mounted on an ass. The people come to meet him in front of the city gate -- we can recognize the Golden Gate on the right of the painting. To honour their Lord, some of them spread their clothes out on the ground. Giotto plainly demonstrates how events are progressing through the various stages of disrobing on the one side, and the movement of the donkey on the other. Movement and counter-movement give us the origin and the end of the procession.
You can see all of Giotto's frescos in this MWW gallery/album:
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