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

Pentecost (detail)

1310-18
Egg tempera on poplar
National Gallery, London

Although the uneven quality of the figures suggests the collaboration of assistants, the two men in the foreground, solidly painted on the ground and psychologically alert despite the decorative symmetry of their poses, are almost certainly by Giotto himself.