Giotto

[ jot-oh; Italian jawt-taw ]

noun

1. Giotto di Bondone, 1266?–1337, Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect.

Giotto

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/ ˈdʒɔtto /

noun

1. Giotto?12671337MItalianFlorentineARTS AND CRAFTS: painter also known as Giotto di Bondone. ?1267–1337, Florentine painter, who broke away from the stiff linear design of the Byzantine tradition and developed the more dramatic and naturalistic style characteristic of the Renaissance: his work includes cycles of frescoes in Assisi, the Arena Chapel in Padua, and the Church of Santa Croce, Florence

Giotto

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/ ˈdʒɔtəʊ /

noun

1. a European spacecraft that intercepted the path of Halley's comet in March 1986, gathering data and recording images, esp of the comet's nucleus

Giotto

1. An Italian painter and architect of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Art in Italy before the time of Giotto was heavily influenced by the art of the Byzantine Empire and was highly stylized; it resembled the icons in Byzantine churches . Giotto was the first painter to abandon Byzantine ways and begin to depict more lifelike expressions and figures.

Example Sentences

Most art history books cite Giotto as the first great painter of the Renaissance.

From The Daily Beast

John Baldesssari received a second trophy and made an even shorter one, thanking Giotto, Goya, Matisse, Duchamp, and Sol LeWitt.

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A richly corbelled cornice crowns the structure, above which a spire was projected by Giotto, but never carried out.

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Arnolfo, the architect of the Duomo, was the first 229builder here, till later Giotto was appointed.

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The whole movement reached nothing beyond a slavish imitation of Giotto and his immediate followers.

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Under Giotto, who was contemporary with Dante, drawing became still more correct, and coloring softer.

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Giotto may design a campanile, but he cannot carve it; he can only carve one or two of the bas-reliefs at the base of it.

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