For Closer Look, The Scrovegni Chapel: If Giotto’s paintings do, in fact, possess an intensity and immediacy that serve to involve the viewer directly in the scene, how might his paintings be compared to the role of music in the liturgy?
What will be an ideal response?
Just as Giotto’s frescoes were meant to draw the viewer into the psychology and emotion of his scenes, so too were the musical innovations of the period aimed at heightening the intensity of the liturgy, as the Church sanctioned innovative forms of polyphonic music for its liturgy .
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