Giotto

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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Giotto [ˈdʒɔtəʊ]

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(Astronautics) 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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Giotto¹

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(Biographies / Giotto (?1267-1337) M, Italiannational of birth: Florentine, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) 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 - 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