Following its resounding success last year, the video-mapping project will return from Wednesday night and run until January 10, 2022.
Giotto’s nativity scenes will be projected onto the exterior of the church, dedicated to Italy’s patron saint, as well as on other landmarks around the pilgrimage town, including the Cathedral of San Rufino, the Basilica of Saint Clare and the Abbey of Saint Peter.
Stars will illuminate the path between the sites, which will be accompanied by life-size sculptures and colourful artistic lighting on the houses in the historic centre of the ancient town.
Each evening, from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm, every 30 minutes the projection of Giotto’s work will be switched off and in its place a video-mapping show will offer views of the Basilica of Saint Francis’ interior.
Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period.
Giotto’s masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305.
The fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ.
It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.
That Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and was chosen by the Commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new bell tower of the Florence Cathedral are among the few certainties about his life.
Almost every other aspect of it is subject to controversy: his birth date, his birthplace, his appearance, his apprenticeship, the order in which he created his works, whether he painted the famous frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis, and his burial place.
