Giotto di Bondone

Also known as di Bondone Giotto, Giotti, Giotto de Bondone, Giotto Fiorentino, Ambrogio Bondone, Ambrogio di Bondone, Angelus de, detto Giotto Bondonis

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