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 Arena of Padua) are among the Christian art.
His influence on the generations of artists who followed him was so immense that one could speak of "giottesque" schools about certain schools of painting gathering painters whose work was marked by that of the Tuscan master .
Painters such as those of the Rimini school (Giovanni Baronzio, Neri da Rimini, Pietro da Rimini) are among his heirs following the passage of Giotto, which is difficult to date (probably between 1303 and 1309) Between his visits to Padua and Assisi, he came to paint a cycle of frescoes (now lost) for the church of San Francesco.
Some of his works
Nativity, from the Scrovegni Chapel
A portrait of Dante by Giotto
One of the Legend of St. Francis frescoes at Assisi, the authorship of which is disputed
The Scrovegni Chapel
Campanile di Giotto (Florence)
