Giotto Review (or just Giotto) is dedicated to the timeless ideals of traditional arts and humanities. Its aim is to foster personal excellence and civic benevolence through robust scholarly inquiry and critical evaluation.

Why the name?

Giotto di Bondone (ca. 1267-1337), Italian painter and architect, set a new standard when he broke from the established Byzantine forms of religious art and revived a humanism that had fallen out of style for two hundred years. He repesents our ideals of innovative traditionalism.

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Giotto Review is a joint venture of love by Melville Holmes, a traditional fine artist best known for his work on the interior restoration of the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington, and K. Lurose, author, historian, and former library-and-museum public relations supervisor.

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