FRENCH LANGUAGE Giotto (c. 1267-1337) was the main architect of the renewal of Western painting since antiquity Three paintings in the Louvre are representative of the different phases of his production and its variety, and form the keystone of the publication: the large Saint Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata from the church of San Francesco in Pisa, a signature creation from his early years, the monumental painted cross, often neglected by the artist's specialists because of its poor state of presentation, but now undergoing a fundamental restoration, the remarkable Crucifixion