Giotto style reference and prompts

The matte painting uses warm earth pigments, aged cream, gray-brown, and concentrated charcoal within a carefully centered arrangement. Forms are simplified into solid geometric masses, repeated small apertures, and broad shallow curves, with fine linear detail reserved for selected edges. Soft surface grain and worn pigment give the color fields an old fresco or tempera character. Dark groups collect along both sides of a larger pale central volume, while an open lower passage guides attention inward. A narrow vertical beam or pale accent creates the highest contrast against an expansive dark upper field. Ambient light remains subdued and even, with little cast shadow; value separation carries the structure more than glossy highlights. Repeated upright small shapes form rhythmic clusters around the central geometry. The overall effect is solemn, ordered, and symbolic, with spatial depth kept shallow enough for the image to read as a unified painted plane.

A square tempera-like painting presents a pale round building in the middle of a crowded old city square beneath a dark sky. The building has a low conical roof colored in warm terracotta, with a narrow white shaft of light rising vertically from its apex into the nearly black upper field. Beneath the roof, a continuous ring of small dark arches circles the upper level. The lower wall is cream with broad shallow arches; a small central doorway opens as a black rectangle under a decorated semicircular panel. Taller brown stone buildings stand close on both sides, their stacked windows and dark openings making the round structure look brighter and more self-contained. Groups of robed people gather at its left and right walls. On the left, the crowd curves inward from the edge, with several pale cloaks among deeper brown garments. On the right, another cluster stands close together between the building and the adjacent tower. A few individuals are separated at the front, leaving an open pale forecourt that leads to the central doorway. Their small faces and garments are rendered with controlled but simplified detail; no one person dominates the scene. Warm earth pigments, gray-brown stone, and muted cream establish the architecture, while the upper sky is a broad charcoal field. The unusual white light supplies the strongest value contrast, and softer ambient light brightens the front wall and ground without pronounced cast shadows. The matte surface shows fine grain and a slightly worn, fresco-like finish. The overall composition is solemn and strongly centered, using symmetrical architectural masses and gathered human rhythms to focus attention on the luminous roof.