Word: capodilista
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Much that was hidden has come to light. At the top of the Last Judgment, two angels dressed in armor roll up the heavens - and we can now see that planets surround the sun and moon. While restorer Enrichetta Capodilista was working on the Massacre of the Innocents, she noticed that five of the women, whose children are being torn from them, have dark streaks on their faces. Her colleagues thought the marks might be water stains, but after she cleaned the women's faces with cotton swabs and distilled water their significance became clear. They are the desperate tears...
...Capodilista had already noted the great care Giotto devoted to even the finest details, such as the fair hair covering Christ's torso in the Crucifixion, the camels' whiskers in the Adoration of the Magi, the weaving of the tablecloth in the Marriage at Cana. "These details could not be seen from the ground without binoculars," she says, "but somehow you can guess they are there. Such touches are among the joys of working on Giotto, but they are also a reason to fear making a mistake." Giotto's storyboard of man's redemption is a profound religious drama...
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