Comparing Giotto's The Entry Into Jerusalem And Duccio

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Giotto’s The Entry into Jerusalem and Duccio’s painting of the same title are extremely similar in appearance. Both artists are very aware of the spacing of everything in their paintings. In each, Christ is standing between two groups of people but is closer to one than the other. The positioning of the people on both sides and those in the trees are nearly the same as well. Both artists put forth a lot of effort into detail of the figures in the paintings. The story strategy for each painting is that of “the citizens welcomed Jesus with palm fronds and cheers as he entered Jerusalem riding a donkey; Christ’s arrival on a humble mount fulfilled a Hebrew Bible prophecy” (Davies et al.). In Giotto’s painting, the “large simple forms, strong grouping