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).
The Sistine Chapel. They were asked to paint the side walls, divided horizontally in three sections and vertically spaced by elegant pilasters. Damask-like draperies with the popeâs coat of arms were frescoed on the lower part of the walls. Tapestries were hung above the draperies; some of them made by Raphael and his assistants in the second decade of the 16th century, can now be seen in the room dedicated to Raphael in the Vatican Pinacoteca.