Notable Masters

Giotto di Bondone

1267 (ca.) in Florence; † 1337 in Florence - 13th century - Duecento - Florentine School

Giotto di Bondone known mononymously as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/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 with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "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".

The Fondazione Federico Zeri provides the most comprehensive database available for Italian art of this era and from this master. The Federico Zeri Catalogue lists 225 unique works (see list 🔗) under Giotto di Bondone.

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Photo credits

  1. Giotto di Bondone: Santa Maria Novella Crucifix, 1290, wikimedia commons, Public domain

  2. Giotto di Bondone: Madonna Enthroned, 1300-1305, wikimedia commons, Public domain

  3. Giotto di Bondone: Madonna with Child, c. 1320-1330, wikimedia commons, Public domain

  4. Giotto di Bondone: The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1320, wikimedia commons, Public domain