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Dec 26, 2021 · How Giotto Changed Art in 10 Masterpieces. In the 15th-century Cennini, a painter and author of artistic treatises, wrote that Giotto “changed the art of painting”; Giotto brought a revolution by making art more faithful to reality. Giotto di Bondone (ca 1267-1337) was a pioneering Tuscan painter of the 14th century.
The artist who takes the biggest step away from the medieval style of spiritual representation in painting in the early 14th century is Giotto. Giotto is perhaps best known for the frescoes he painted in the Arena (or Scrovegni) Chapel.
about 1267 or 1276; died 1337. Image: Giotto di Bondone. Giotto was the chief liberator of Italian painting from the Byzantine style of the early Middle Ages. He was mainly active in Florence, although he may have been trained in Rome. He also worked in Avignon, Padua and Naples (1328-32).
