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View all 136 artworks. Giotto lived in the XIII – XIV cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Proto Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Sep 9, 2020 · Giotto di Bondone (b. 1267 or 1277 - d. 1337 CE), usually referred to as simply Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect whose work was hugely influential in the history of Western art. Giotto is most famous today for the cycle of frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel of Padua where his love of drama is most effective in such scenes as Judas ...
Feb 11, 2022 · Giotto the artist is recognized as one of the most significant painters in Western art history. Giotto’s Renaissance style heralded a new era in the arts by combining spiritual antiquity with the embryonic idea of Renaissance Humanism, predating many of the fascinations and difficulties of the Italian High Renaissance by 100 years.
Nov 23, 2023 · When Giotto died in 1337 at around the age of 70 (his year of birth is unclear), he was given a ceremonious state funeral in Florence, the first time such an honor was bestowed upon an artist. In ...
Biography. An artist who played a decisive role in the development of Italian painting in his century and beyond (his works were studied and copied by masters of the stature of Masaccio and Michelangelo), Giotto was probably born in Florence c . 1265. [1] According to the earlier sources, he was a disciple of Cimabue (c. 1240 – 1302).
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).
Giotto (di Bondone), (born 1266–67/1276, Vespignano, near Florence—died Jan. 8, 1337, Florence), First of the great Italian painters, active in Florence. He decorated chapels and churches in Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples with frescoes and panel paintings.
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