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Boniface VIII in the Lateran fresco

The fragment in the Lateran Basilica was part of a bigger fresco cycle formerly in the Loggia delle benedizioni. Interpretation of the fresco is controversial. Recent diagnostic analyses seem to confirm the old interpretation that Boniface VIII is portrayed while announcing the Jubilee of 1300. The attribution to Giotto is unconfirmed

Enciclopedia dell'arte medievale,by Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, vol. VI (Erfurt-Giustiniano), Roma 1995

Boniface VIII - engraved reproduction of the fragment from the Lateran fresco

The engraving reproduces the fragment of the Lateran fresco portraiying Boniface VIII. Chacón reported the fresco was by Giotto

Effigies Bonifacij Papae VIII à Giotto expressa in antiqua Lateranensis Basilicae porticu, atque inde secto pariete in eiusdem Templi claustrum translata, in: Alfonso Chacón, Vitae, et res gestae pontificum Romanorum et s.r.e. cardinalium ab initio nascentis Ecclesiae usque ad Clementem IX..., vol. II, Roma 1677