Giotto

[ jot-oh; Italian jawt-taw ]

/ ˈdʒɒt oʊ; Italian ˈdʒɔt tɔ /

noun

Giotto di Bondone,1266?–1337, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.

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Most art history books cite Giotto as the first great painter of the Renaissance.

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John Baldesssari received a second trophy and made an even shorter one, thanking Giotto, Goya, Matisse, Duchamp, and Sol LeWitt.

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The fresco by Giotto is much, but the vault it adorns was planned first.

Ariadne Florentina |John Ruskin
But Giotto does not forget to place a flowering plant in the balcony just as the peasants have always done in his mountain home.

The Story of Assisi |Lina Duff Gordon

This was partly in compliance with a tendency which was beginning to manifest itself even before Giotto's time.

Giotto and his works in Padua |John Ruskin
Giotto expressed himself through a series of pictured legends.

Since Czanne |Clive Bell
This, perhaps the most interesting of Giotto's frescoes, can be compared with the one in Sta.

The Story of Assisi |Lina Duff Gordon

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Giotto ¹

/ (Italian ˈdʒɔtto) /

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also known as Giotto di Bondone. ?1267–1337, Florentine painter, who broke away from the stiff linear design of the Byzantine tradition and developed the more dramatic and naturalistic style characteristic of the Renaissance: his work includes cycles of frescoes in Assisi, the Arena Chapel in Padua, and the Church of Santa Croce, Florence

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Giotto ²

/ (ˈdʒɔtəʊ) /

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a European spacecraft that intercepted the path of Halley's comet in March 1986, gathering data and recording images, esp of the comet's nucleus

Cultural definitions for giotto

Giotto

[ (jot-oh) ]

An Italian painter and architect of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Art in Italy before the time of Giotto was heavily influenced by the art of the Byzantine Empire and was highly stylized; it resembled the icons in Byzantine churches. Giotto was the first painter to abandon Byzantine ways and begin to depict more lifelike expressions and figures.

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