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This paper is a comparison of Giotto's fresco, "The Adoration of the Magi," sometimes called "the Epiphany," and "St. Francis Recieving the Stigmata," generally attributed to Jan van Eyck, althuogh this remains uncertain. The paper posits that the paintings each represent advances in art, although the van Eyck painting shows an overwhelming development of the bckground, increasing the detail and realism to the point where it is almost oppressive.

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"Giotto de Bondoni was a breakthrough artist in that he turned art toward a much higher degree of realism than it had known before the early fourteenth century. However, by later standards, his frescoes seem remarkably crude. Many of his finest works are among the frescos in the Arena or Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. (Battisti, 78) The chapel was designed by Giotto to provide him with walls on which he created a range of frescoes depicting the life of Christ and various events attendant to that life. The project was apparently undertaken as a compensatory gesture to..."

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