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GIOTTO di Bondone
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1267-1337
Italian painter and designer. In his own time and place he had an unrivalled reputation as the best painter and as an innovator, superior to all his predecessors, and he became the first post-Classical artist whose fame extended beyond his lifetime and native city. This was partly the consequence of the rich literary culture of two of the cities where he worked, Padua and Florence. Writing on art in Florence was pioneered by gifted authors and, although not quite art criticism, it involved the comparison of local artists in terms of quality. The most famous single appreciation is found in Dante's verses (Purgatory x) of 1315 or earlier. Exemplifying the transience of fame, first with poets and manuscript illuminators, Dante then remarked that the fame of Cimabue, who had supposed himself to be the leader in painting, had now been displaced by Giotto. Ironically, this text was one factor that forestalled the similar eclipse of Giotto's fame, which was clearly implied by the poet.
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Painting ID:: 40127
Legend of St Francis St Francis Preaching before Pope Honorius Ill
mk156
1296-1297
Fresco
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Painting ID:: 40128
Flight into Egypt
mk156
200x185cm
1303-05
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Painting ID:: 40129
Meeting at the Golden Gate
mk156
1303-05
Fresco
Cappella Scrovegni
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Painting ID:: 40130
Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple
mk156
1303-05
Fresco
Cappella degli Scrovegni Dell- Arena
Padua
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Painting ID:: 40133
Ognissanti Madonna
mk156
1305-10
Tempera on panel
325x204cm
Galleria degli Uffizi,Florence
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GIOTTO di Bondone
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, 1267-1337
Italian painter and designer. In his own time and place he had an unrivalled reputation as the best painter and as an innovator, superior to all his predecessors, and he became the first post-Classical artist whose fame extended beyond his lifetime and native city. This was partly the consequence of the rich literary culture of two of the cities where he worked, Padua and Florence. Writing on art in Florence was pioneered by gifted authors and, although not quite art criticism, it involved the comparison of local artists in terms of quality. The most famous single appreciation is found in Dante's verses (Purgatory x) of 1315 or earlier. Exemplifying the transience of fame, first with poets and manuscript illuminators, Dante then remarked that the fame of Cimabue, who had supposed himself to be the leader in painting, had now been displaced by Giotto. Ironically, this text was one factor that forestalled the similar eclipse of Giotto's fame, which was clearly implied by the poet.
. Related Artists to GIOTTO di Bondone: | ZIMMERMANN Dominikus | Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim | Johan Richter | Elliott Charles Loring | Guillaume Descamps |
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