Giotto

American  

[jot-oh, jawt-taw] / ˈdʒɒt oʊ, ˈdʒɔt tɔ /

noun

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

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Giotto ¹ British  

/ 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

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Giotto ² British  

/ ˈdʒɔtto /

noun

1. 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

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Giotto Cultural  

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.

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Giotto

Renaissance author Giovanni Boccaccio named Giotto, who died in 1337, "the best painter in the world".

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

One of those lesser-known painters is Palmerino di Guido, who assisted Giotto in decorating the celebrated St. Nicholas and Magdalen Chapels in the basilica’s lower church.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

The nature of optics, or how the eye sees as light’s conduit, is the focus of an altarpiece fragment by Giotto from the San Diego Museum of Art.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2024

But the most striking difference between the panettone at Giotto and the nine others on the list is that Giotto’s is made in a prison.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

The reality Giotto wants to convey is not just visual, while in Brunelleschi’s test pieces the whole and sole point is geometrical precision.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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