Giotto
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'''Giotto di Bondone''' (c. 1267 – [[January 8]] [[1337]]), better known simply as '''Giotto''', was an [[italy|Italian]] [[painter]] and [[architect]] from [[Florence]]. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the [[Italian Renaissance]]. | '''Giotto di Bondone''' (c. 1267 – [[January 8]] [[1337]]), better known simply as '''Giotto''', was an [[italy|Italian]] [[painter]] and [[architect]] from [[Florence]]. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the [[Italian Renaissance]]. |
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Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 – January 8 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
Giotto's contemporary 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 he was given a salary by the commune [of Florence] in virtue of his talent and excellence."
The later 16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari says of him "...He made a decisive break with the ...Byzantine style, and brought to life 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."}