GIOTTO di Bondone
(b. 1267, Vespignano, d. 1337, Firenze)

Badia Polyptych

1300-02
Tempera on wood, 91x334 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

This painting was originally on the high altar of the Badia in Florence. It is characterized by a language completely renewed in the 14th-century direction, which was to be at the basis of subsequent developments in Florentine and Italian painting.