Giotto di Bondone

Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of

retired ESA spacecraft which visited Comets Halley and Grigg-Skjellerup

chapel in Padua, Italy

bell tower by Giotto

crater on Mercury

painting by Giotto di Bondone in Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy