Gifted with a large and comprehensive intellect, capable of sustained labour, and devoted with the unaffected zeal of a good craftsman to his art, Giotto in the course of his long career filled Italy with work that taught succeeding centuries of painters.

As we travel from Padua in the north, where his Arena Chapel sets forth the legend of Mary and the life of Christ in a series of incomparable frescoes, southward to Naples, where he adorned the convent of S.Chiara, we meet with Giotto in almost every city.

The "Passion of our Lord" and the "Allegories of S.Francis" were painted by him at Assisi.

S.Peter's at Borne still shows his mosaic of the "Ship of the Church." Florence raises his wonderful bell-tower, that lily among campanili, to the sky; and preserves two chapels of S.
Croce, illuminated by him with paintings from the stories of S.Francis and S.John.In the chapel of the Podesta he drew the portraits of Dante, Brunetto Latini, and Charles of Valois.

And these are but a tithe of his productions.