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Giotto: Lamentation
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Giotto di Bondone
Born:
1266/67 or 1276, Vespignano, near Florence [Italy]
Died:
January 8, 1337, Florence
Movement / Style:
Renaissance
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Giotto (born 1266/67 or 1276, Vespignano, near Florence [Italy]—died January 8, 1337, Florence) was the most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later. For almost seven centuries, Giotto has been revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters. He is believed to have been a pupil of the Florentine painter Cimabue and to have decorated chapels in Assisi, Rome, Padua, Florence, and Naples with frescoes and panel paintings in tempera. Because little of his life and few of ...(100 of 2797 words)

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