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Dear medieval-religion colleagues,
I was intrigued to read in today's Repubblica (and to see the photos linked there) that in Giotto's painting in the Upper Basilica in Assisi of the ascending of Francis's soul into heaven, there appears to be a face -- it is presumed in the article to be a demonic one -- in a cloud; see
http://tinyurl.com/faceinthecloud
The article says that until this observation (made by Chiara Frugoni), the earliest known face that was painted in a cloud, was by Mantegna in 1460.
Anyone seen images like this before? Is it necessarily a demonic figure?
It is certainly interesting that it seems that Frugoni's observation of this image seems to be the first such one made in the c.800-year history of this much studied painting. One can never stare at a painting sufficiently, I guess.
Best wishes, George
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George FERZOCO
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