In Ruskin 's later treatment of Giotto there is what appears to be a deliberate echo of George Herbert 's 'A servant with this clause / makes drudgery divine'. Giotto, says Ruskin, makes 'the simplest household duties sacred; and the highest religious passions, serviceable, and just' ( Works, 23.333 and see also MP I:3, and Ruskin on Giotto for the 'truth' which Ruskin saw as the characteristic feature of Giotto's work).
Similarly at Works, 23.322 there is a reference to Giotto 'simply looking at things as they were' which is reminiscent of Herbert 's 'Who says that fictions only and false hair / Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?'
The coach parties queuing now to see Giotto's frescoes at the Arena Chapel in Padua suggest that there has been a change in public taste.