Giotto, Pentecost

Description

The work is set in a room described as a loggia pierced by trefoil pointed arches. Twelve apostles are seated inside (after the death of Judas Iscariot who committed suicide, the apostle Matthias is elected to replace him, Jesus is not depicted because after the resurrection and before Pentecost he ascended to heaven). The building is placed in foreshortening to the left, to accommodate the viewer's vision ideally in the center of the chapel, a device also used in other corner scenes. The divine light, red like the flames of Charity, emanates from the ceiling and invests the participants.