Giotto di Bondone Biography
| Known as | Giotto |
| Occup. | Artist |
| From | Italy |
| Born | 1266 AC
Florence, Republic of Florence |
| Died | January 8, 1337 |
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter, carver and engineer.
Giotto was born in a bad peasant family members near Florence, and also as a child ticket he gets. According to tale, he will be made use of with chalk cliffs when the artist Cimabue passed by. A drawing of a sheep was brilliant and excellent, and as a result suggested Cimabue to Giotto's papa that his son would become his pupil. Likewise during the training duration revealed big Giotto ability to create vivid pictures of such flies.
As a painter he was ingenious as well as is regarded as a leader of the Renaissance, he braked with the extremely restricted Byzantine paint design. The distinction was that the contemporary style commonly presented flat, symbolic figures prepared in ornamental rooms, while Giotto painted rather extra private personalities that interacted in a viewpoint. His figures were shaped appearance, with fullness as well as weight. This provided him in his own lifetime several admirers, consisting of the King of Naples, Dante and also Boccaccio.
It is taped numerous jobs by Giotto. Among one of the most well-known is his series of images of St.
Francis of Assisi's life in the upper church of San Francesco. There is still some unpredictability about whether Giotto is actually the writer of the series. Another example is the Crucifixion in Santa Maria Novella in Florence.
His work of art is the ceiling decoration in the Capella degli Scrovegni in Padua, which he finished around 1305. There are 100 more situations that show the Virgin Mary's life as well as Christ's Passion. Corettiene, the panels are painted as an exercise in point of view paint. Male design was a straight inspiration for
Michelangelo's ceiling paints in the Sistine church, about 200 years later on. All in all, the Renaissance painters were extremely amazed by the power of Giotto's representation of the Passion.
From 10 years in Rome at the Pope's request, and a duration in Naples, it is not kept a lot of items. Regarding 1320 Giotto returned to Florence, where he Basilica di Santa Croce, painted frescoes and also altarpieces. The frescoes were severely harmed, yet you see sufficient that can notice a modification in his design to the extra elaborate.
He went to work as an engineer, to name a few points, the campanile of the basilica in Florence. He died however within it was completed.
Our collection contains 5 quotes who is written / told by Giotto.
Related authors: Michelangelo (Artist), Ben Shahn (Artist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete), Francis of Assisi (Saint)
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