Giotto: Dreaming the Renaissance

This documentary recounts how, in the fourteenth century, the world of art was revolutionised by the arrival in Padova of the artist and architect, Gioodo Di Bo

At a time when the great Signorias and Maritime Republics dominated the Italian territory, artists were called upon by the powerful to decorate palaces and churches as testimony to their influence. The Carraresi family, at that time at odds with the Serenissima Republic of Venice, initiated a policy of culture. More and better than other important Signorie of the 14th century, they moved in a cosmopolitan context, forging relations with the major European courts. They hired the leading artists of the 14th century into their service for self-celebratory purposes and modelled the city in their image and likeness, originating the Urbs Picta.

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