Giotto
Sign in to saveGiotto 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
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Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence (1267–1337) who is widely recognized as a master artist of his time, praised for drawing figures and their postures according to nature rather than following rigid artistic conventions. He is considered historically important because he broke away from the Byzantine style that dominated medieval art and helped initiate a new artistic direction during the Proto-Renaissance period.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1266?
- Died
- 1337
- Works
- 53
Top works
- I mondi di Francesco
- Giotto: Die Geschichte Christi
- 100 Meisterwerke der Kunst in Farben, von Giotto bis Picasso
- Giotto nella Basilica di S. Francesco in Assisi
- Giotto e il suo tempo
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- Artist.name
- Giotto di Bondone
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- Five Famous Men of the Florentine Renaissance, Giotto (cropped).jpg
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- Early life and career
- Career
- Scrovegni Chapel
- Sequence
- Style
- Mature works
- Peruzzi and Bardi Chapels at Santa Croce
- Later works and death
- Burial and legacy
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
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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 painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years".
Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305. The fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.