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Giotto

Also known as di Bondone Giotto, Giotti, Giotto Di Bondone, Giotto de Bondone, Giotto Fiorentino, Ambrogio Bondone, Ambrogio di Bondone, Angelus de, detto Giotto Bondonis

Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler 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 of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of

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Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, architect, sculptor, and muralist associated with the Proto-Renaissance and Gothic art movements. Born in Vicchio, he died in Florence on January 8, 1337. His notable works include the Scrovegni Chapel, Saint Stephen, and Giotto's Campanile. He was a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis and held citizenship in Italy and the Republic of Florence.

Giotto’s students included Taddeo Gaddi, Bernardo Daddi, Puccio Capanna, and Guglielmo da Forli. His works are present in the collections of the Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and National Gallery of Victoria. He is mentioned in *The Decameron* and *The Divine Comedy*, and his life has been described in sources such as *Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects*.

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Artist.name: Giotto di Bondone
Artist.image: Five Famous Men of the Florentine Renaissance, Giotto (cropped).jpg
Artist.caption: Posthumous portrait, made near the end of the 15th century
Artist.birth_name: Giotto di Bondone
Artist.birth_place: near Florence, Republic of Florence
Artist.death_place: Florence, Republic of Florence

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Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Republic of Florence
Place of birth: Vicchio
Place of death: Florence
Occupation: designer
Position held: court painter
Languages spoken: Italian
Student of: Cimabue
Field of work: painting
Genre: mythological painting
Movement: Gothic art
Image: Uffizi Giotto.jpg
Number of children: 8
Work location: Bologna
Religious order: Third Order of Saint Francis

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date of birth: 1266-01-01
date of death: 1337-01-08
Commons category: Giotto di Bondone
Commons Creator page: Giotto di Bondone
topic's main category: Category:Giotto di Bondone
student: Maestro Espressionista di Santa Chiara
Commons gallery: Giotto di Bondone
name in native language: Giotto di Bondone
present in work: The Divine Comedy
described at URL: www.giottoagliscrovegni.it/giotto.html
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
different from: Giotto
name: Giotto
place of burial: Florence Cathedral

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Contents

Early life and career
Career
Scrovegni Chapel
Sequence
Style
Mature works
Peruzzi and Bardi Chapels at Santa Croce
Later works and death
Burial and legacy
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel, in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, which was completed around 1305. The fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.

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