By the time Giotto was painting the walls of small chapels of Padua and Assisi in northern Italy at the beginning of 14th century,…the world around him was beginning to change.
Trade routes in northern Europe had opened up new markets.
There was an exchange of goods and ideas.
Authority of church was questions due to the rise of merchant class with their new wealth…
Wealthy patrons brought humanistic philosophy of classical influence on art and architecture.