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Giotto (born 1266/67 or 1276, Vespignano, near Florence [Italy]—died January 8, 1337, Florence) was the most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later.
Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267[a] – January 8, 1337), [2][3] known mononymously as Giotto (UK: / ˈdʒɒtoʊ / JOT-oh, [4] US: / dʒiˈɒtoʊ, ˈdʒɔːtoʊ / jee-OT-oh, JAW-toh) [5][6] and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
Revered as one of the first of the great Italian masters, Giotto brought a new sense of humanity and style to the traditions of medieval art. Following his intervention, "flat" Christian paintings came to be seen by progressive painters as inanimate and lacking in human feeling.
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto]) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
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 ...
Nov 23, 2023 · Feted during his lifetime, the early-14th-century painter Giotto di Bondone is often hailed as the father of the Italian Renaissance.
Jan 20, 2020 · So much so that Giotto is often regarded as the father of the Italian Renaissance, and even the father of European painting. Here, we explore Giotto's mythic life and the development of his naturalist style.
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]
At once austere and tender, this image belongs to a series of seven narrative scenes of the Life of Christ. The sophisticated depiction of the stable, viewed from slightly below, and the columnar solidity of the figures are typical of Giotto, considered the founder of Italian painting.
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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