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Floods in Padua (c. 1310).

     

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Inondation à Padoue
Painted beech, ebony and glass.
H.86, W.70, D.64 cm (1982).

Fonds Régional
d'Art Contemporain
Languedoc-Roussillon

 

Five years have passed since Giotto finished the frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. La Brenta rises from his bed to find the floodwater ascending the legs of his marble chair. Note the Argentine fighter caught in enemy sights. (The work was undertaken at the height of the Falklands War).


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