Giotto painter biography

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    Giotto

    Italian painter and architect (c. – )

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    Giotto di Bondone (Italian:[ˈdʒɔttodibonˈdoːne]; c.&#;[a] – January 8, ),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto[b], was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period.[7] Giotto's contemporary, the banker and historieberättare Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign mästare of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence".[8]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".[9]

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    Giotto

    Know as “the great Giotto”, Giotto di Bondone was the leading artist at the start of Italy’s Renaissance and the Florentine School of painting. According to Giorgio Vasari ( – ), who dedicated a chapter to the painter in his The Lives of the Artists, Giotto was the tipping point of Italian art from the Byzantine style, into the Renaissance. It is said that that last great painter of the Byzantine era, Cimabue ( – ), discovered a young Giotto in his rawest form. As written by Vasari:

    “One day Cimabue was going about his business between Florence and Vespignano, and he came upon Giotto who, while his sheep were grazing, was sketching one of them in a lifelike way with a slightly pointed rock upon a smooth and polished stone without having learned how to draw it from anyone other than Nature. This caused Cimabue to stop in amazement…”

    It is from here that Cimabue brought Giotto into the bustling activity of the art world in Florence, where he excelled beyond measure of the

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    Giotto, a biography full of legends

    Giotto di Bondone (/) is considered one of the greatest artists of the Medieval Age and his biography is rich of curious anecdotes, but many of them are legends. According to the tradition, Giotto was born in Vicchio, in the Mugello, in a family of farmers that moved to Florence when he was a child. His parents gave him in custody to Cimabue, the famous painter. According to another version, Cimabue noticed the young Giotto while he was drawing a sheep on a rock, because he worked as a shepherd in the country near Vicchio.

    Many stories talk about Giotto’s extraordinary artistic abilities. He was considered very able in freehand drawing: according to Vasari, he was able to draw perfect circumferences without compass: this is the famous “Giotto’s O”.

    Another story talks again about Cimabue: while he was away, his pupil has drawn a lifelike fly on the painting he was working on and he tried to brush it off, because it seemed real.  Becau

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