... feet are marked out in loving detail. The artist took a fractal approach to the painting, trying to add realism to his scene by adding layer upon layer of detail to the figures. The foreshortening of limbs and bodies in the painting is testament to Giotto's influence and the figures themselves have a reasonable deal of realism to them, even if the painting overall does not. The flowers across the picture are typical of the pre-Renaissance fascination with the delicate and beautiful, and the diptych shows a great power of observation, but the early date of the painting is clear when we look at the background, and the way that space is portrayed within the picture. The gilded background was a show of wealth in a space that usually lay redundant in paintings of this era, as at the time, a high calibre means of representing space had not ...

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