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Giotto di Bondone
Title: Giotto di Bondone
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 509 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Giotto di Bondone
Giotto (1267?-1337), the most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose
conception of the human figure in broad, rounded terms—rather than in the flat, two-dimensional
terms of Gothic and Byzantine styles (see Gothic Art and Architecture and Byzantine Art and
Architecture)—indicated a concern for naturalism that was a milestone in the development of
Western art.
He was born Giotto di Bondone in Colle di Vespignano, near Florence. Details of his early
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Giotto was ahead of his time. Most of his followers painted in a less significant, more
overtly decorative style. It remained for Masaccio, a century later, to expand upon Giotto's
monumental style. Giotto's example was crucial to the development of later Florentine painting, and
his preoccupation with the realities of the human figure and the visible world became the dominant
concerns of the Florentine Renaissance. He died in Florence, in 1337.
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