Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone or Ambrogiotto di Bondone, born in 1267 in Vespignano or Romignano, died on 8 January 1337 in Florence, is a Florentine painter, sculptor and architect of the Trecento, whose works are at the origin of the revival of the Western painting. It was the influence of his painting that would provoke the vast general movement of the Renaissance from the following century. Giotto is connected with the artistic current of the Pre-Renaissance, of which he is one of the masters, who manifested himself in Italy at the beginning of the fourteenth century. At the end of the Middle Ages, Giotto was the first artist whose thought and new vision of the world helped to build this movement, humanism, which places man in the central place of the universe and makes him master of his Own destiny. The frescoes painted by Giotto in Florence (Basilica Santa Croce in Florence), Assisi (Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi) and Padua (Scrovegni chapel in the A...