Giotto

Noun

Meaning

Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)

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As early as 1543, Vasari wrote of Cimabue, "Cimabue was, in one sense, the principal cause of the renewal of painting," with the qualification that, "Giotto truly eclipsed Cimabue's fame just as a great light eclipses a much smaller one." Source: Internet

An illustration by the artist Domenico Lenzi, the City Scene of 1340 from the Il Biadaiolo codex, shows just how much the Florentine artists were influenced by Giotto. Source: Internet

In painting Cimabue thought he held the field but now it's Giotto has the cry, so that the other's fame is dimmed. Source: Internet

Structure and composition The nucleus of Halley's Comet, imaged by the Giotto probe in 1986. Source: Internet

From Giotto on, the treatment of composition by the best painters also became much more free and innovative. Source: Internet

Giotto showed that this model was broadly correct, though with modifications. Source: Internet

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