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Giotto di Bondone

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Italiano
Nacimiento/Muerte
circa 1267-1337

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Artwork by Giotto di Bondone
Work of Art
Christ Blessing with St. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, and St. Francis (known as the Peruzzi Altarpiece)
Five panel altarpiece featuring Christ, St. John the Evangelist, the Virgin Mary, St. John the Baptist, and St. Francis against a gold background.

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The Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect Giotto di Bondone was the most famous artist of his time. His paintings were known throughout Italy. Poets and other writers from the 14th and 15th centuries praised his ability to paint figures and gestures al naturale, or in a very lifelike manner. What makes Giotto’s paintings different from his Florentine predecessors is the sculptural quality of his figures, whose proportions remind viewers of the realistic-looking sculptures of ancient Greece and Rome. The facial expressions of the figures in his paintings are also depicted in a realistic way. These qualities in Giotto’s art have led generations of art historians to credit him with sparking the artistic revolution known as the Renaissance.

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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. 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…