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

The team decided to remove filling from previous restoration work, replacing it by mixtures of lime and sand that more closely resembled the original material used by Giotto.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

On loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, it is the only surviving fragment of a “Celestial Glory” fresco by Giotto and his workshop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026

Garabedian assumes the fatherly supporting role of St. Joseph, the carpenter, shown in the background building a domestic shelter reminiscent of those in Renaissance nativities by Giotto or Botticelli.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Donatello was “the greatest artist of all time,” Caglioti said, one whose impact overshadowed that of Giotto, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

Although Giotto was perfectly capable of producing a geometrically legible space, doing so is not his primary concern.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton