Fragment of Giotto's Navicella Mosaic (Angel)

Commissioned for Old St. Peter’s, Giotto’s monumental ‘Navicella’ showed Peter walking toward Christ across a raging sea. Most of the original was altered or lost in later rebuildings, but this angel fragment preserves Giotto’s volumetric figures and expressive tilt. Tesserae are set to catch light like painted brushwork, a bridge between mosaic and the new naturalism.