Arena Chapel

Wanted

March 26, 2022UncategorizedArena Chapel, Art, crimes against humanity, giotto, Mariupol, massacre of the innocents, Stand with Ukraine, Ukraine, Wanted, war crimesAndrew Seal View all 2 comments

Wanted for crimes against humanity, the criminal now known as the butcher of Russia, for his merciless massacre of innocent Ukrainian children, men and women, grandparents and parents. Today we learn that many of the over 300 killed in the Mariupol Theatre attack were children and pregnant women sheltering after they had escaped the bombing of the Mariupol Maternity and Children’s Hospital.

This ongoing “Massacre of the Innocents” breaks all of our hearts as it continues unabated, with the fresco by Giotto di Bondoni in the Arena Chapel in Padua as meaningful today as it was when he painted it over nine hundred years ago.

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massacre of the innocents

May 13, 2020Art, UncategorizedArena Chapel, Art, Art studio, crimes against humanity, drawing, giotto, Kabul attack, massacre of the innocents, Remembrance, Scrovegni Chapel, sorrowAndrew Seal View all 4 comments

Yesterday’s Massacre of the Innocents in Kabul was simply heartbreaking. This drawing today includes both a sketch based on a Reuter’s photo together with one of a section of Giotto’s Massacre of the Innocents c. 1305 from the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, which moved me so much when we visited twenty years ago. There are no words but a need to express with this drawing outrage, despair and remembrance.