Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337)
- Fame68.8
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- Artists rank#55
ItalyHe broke seven centuries of flat, stiff saints and made paint behave like flesh. Before Giotto, figures floated in gold leaf; after him, they stood in space with weight and sorrow you could believe.
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Giotto di Bondone worked in Florence during the late 1200s and early 1300s, at the hinge between Gothic tradition and what would become the Renaissance. His contemporary, banker Giovanni Villani, noted that Giotto drew figures "according to nature" with publicly recognized excellence; Giorgio Vasari later credited him with breaking from Byzantine style and reviving the technique of drawing accurately from life after two centuries of neglect. Around 1305 he completed the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes in Padua—depicting the lives of the Virgin and Christ—now regarded as one of the supreme masterpiec…
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