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  

/ 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 ² 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 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

Here, inside of a tightly symmetrical structure, Giotto places the followers of Jesus speaking in tongues—flames sprout from their heads—while onlookers, separated by a low wall, view the scene with bafflement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Reagan called film “the world’s most enduring art form,” which must have puzzled admirers of Mozart, Giotto and the Lascaux Cave paintings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

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

If it had, Giotto would have completed the perspectival revolution, Brunelleschi’s images would have been unnecessary, and Alberti would have had nothing new to say.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton