deaths

Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (born 1266)

Historical image related to Giotto, Italian painter and architect, designed Scrovegni Chapel and Giotto's Campanile (born 1266) from January 8, 1337

Giotto

Italian painter and architect (c. 1267 – 1337)

Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was…
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Scrovegni Chapel

Scrovegni Chapel, Padua's fourteenth-century fresco cycles

The Scrovegni Chapel, also known as the Arena Chapel, is a small church, adjacent to the Augustinian monastery, the Monastero degli Eremitani in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy. The chapel and monastery are now part of the complex of the Musei Civici di Padova.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Giotto's Campanile

Bell tower in Florence, Italy

Giotto's Campanile is a free-standing campanile that is part of the complex of buildings that make up Florence Cathedral on the Piazza del Duomo in Florence, Italy.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

January 8

Day of the year

January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year.
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)