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What happened to Giotto’s frescoes during his stay in Naples?
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Giotto
Lamentation, fresco by Giotto, 1303–05; in the Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy.
All of the frescoes that Giotto executed during his stay in Naples—which lasted from approximately 1329 until 1332–1333—have been lost. While he created these works on the walls of the Castel Nuovo during the reign of King Robert, no physical evidence of them remains today. Despite their loss, historians note that traces of his artistic style can still be distinguished in the local Neapolitan school of painting.123