Cappella Baroncelli
The Baroncelli Chapel is a chapel located at the end of the right transept in church of Santa Croce, central Florence, Italy. It has frescoes by Taddeo Gaddi executed between 1328 and 1338. Description Gaddi artworks The fresco cycle represents the ''Stories of the Virgin''. In this work, Gaddi showed his mastership of Giotto's style, with a narrative disposition of the characters in the scenes, which are more crowded than his master's. He also continued to experiment with the use of geometrical perspective in the architectural background, obtaining illusionistic effects in details such as the oblique staircase in the ''Presentation at the Temple''. The two niches with still lifes in the basement are perhaps inspired by Giotto's ones in the Scrovegni Chapel. The delicate and soft features are characteristic of Gaddi's late style. The adoption of night light in the ''Annunciation to the Shepherds'' is nearly unique in the mid-14th century painting of central Italy. Gaddi ...
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Cappella may refer to: * Cappella (band), Italian electronic music group * a cappella, unaccompanied singing People with the surname * Felix Cappella (1930-2011), Canadian race walker * Scipione Cappella (fl. 18th century), Italian painter See also

* A cappella (other), including "A Cappella" * Capella (other) * Capela (other) {{disambiguation, surname ...
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