• 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". • Giotto's style drew on the solid and classicizing sculpture of Arnolfo di Cambio. • Unlike those by Cimabue and Duccio, Giotto's figures are not stylized or elongated and do not follow Byzantine models. • Next
Giotto di Bondone, The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1320
Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2021.
Giotto di Bondone, The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1320
Giotto di Bondone, The Last Supper
Original, The Pinakotheken, Munich. Visited in 2019.
