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Giotto

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Giot·to  (jt, jtt) Full name Giotto di Bondone. 1267?-1337.
Florentine painter, architect, and sculptor. Considered the greatest painter of pre-Renaissance Italy, he turned from the formulaic Byzantine style to a more natural representation of human expression and movement.
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Noun1.GiottoGiotto - Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)
Giotto di Bondone
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Observe how Giotto in these frescoes--now, unhappily, ruined by restoration--is untroubled by the snares of anatomy and perspective.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
In themselves there is nothing to choose between the Campanile of Giotto and a factory chimney.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
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