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These works are part of the last works of Giotto and presage the classical gravity of Renaissance art. Later Michelangelo in his formative years, will study these frescoes in Santa Croce.

Giotto was so praised as an artist that long after his passing his craft was immortalized in Cennino Cennini's Italian treatise entitled The Book of Art that described what it was to be an artist. The author was a painter who was also articulated about his craft. His claim to expertise in his field was based on the fact that he had been a pupil of a pupil of a pupil of Giotto's; through this direct link he had absorbed the practical fundamentals of Giotto's craft. He said of Giotto that his major contribution to the evolution of art was: "to move the Art of Paint from Greek to Latin".