Monday 31 May 2010 20.33 EDT First published on Monday 31 May 2010 20.33 EDT. Tropical Storm Agatha swept across Central America yesterday, bringing torrential rain that killed more than 100 people and opened a 60m-deep sinkhole in Guatemala City which reportedly swallowed up a three-storey building.
The artist who takes the biggest step away from the Medieval style of spiritual representation in painting in the early 14th century is Giotto. Giotto is perhaps best known for the frescos he painted in the Arena (or Scrovegni) Chapel. They were commissioned by a wealthy man named Enrico Scrovegni, the son of a well-known banker (and a banker himself).
La Primavera : Botticelli's Mythological Masterpiece. La Primavera or âSpringtimeâ is one of the best-known works of art of the Florentine Renaissance. Painted in 1482 by Sandro Botticelli, the painting is believed to have been privately commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco, a member of the Medici family who hung the painting above a sofa in an anteroom to his bedchamber. Today the painting resides in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.