Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto (c. 1267 to 1337), was an Italian painter and architect from Florence, active during the Late Middle Ages in the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. His contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, called him the most sovereign master of painting of his time, praising his ability to draw figures and their postures according to nature. The later writer Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevailing Byzantine style, crediting him with introducing accurate drawing from life after it had been neglected for more than two hundred years.
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Giotto worked primarily in tempera on panel and in fresco.
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The chapel contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed around 1305 and an important masterpiece of Western art.
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Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages.
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c. 1267
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January 8, 1337
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January 8, 1337
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near Florence, Republic of Florence
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January 8, 1337
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an Italian painter and architect
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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".
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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) (Wikipedia)
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Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ) is a fresco painted c.1305 by the Italian artist Giotto as part of his cycle of the Life of Christ on the interior walls of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Italy. The Scrovegni Chapel was built
Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (Giotto) (Wikipedia)
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