The reason is that I want to show what I saw when I first looked at a Giotto painting: At first glance, the people seem to be smiling.
It's their doll-like faces with the plump cheeks, I realized later, and they and their creator grew on me slightly.
(Not to the point that he did on Miss Jean Brodie, who asked her students to name Italy's greatest ever painter and got "Michelangelo" or some nobody like that, and told them "That is wrong. It is Giotto. He is my favourite.")
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