Giotto The Madonna in Glory Painting ID:: 1774 Giotto1.jpg
The Madonna in Glory 1310
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Giotto Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Painting ID:: 1776 Giotto3.jpg
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Painting ID:: 1777 Giotto4.jpg
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Painting ID:: 1778 Giotto5.jpg
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin Scenes from the Life of the Virgin
The Flight into Egypt
Giotto Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 1 Painting ID:: 1780 Giotto6.jpg
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 1 1303-05
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 11 Painting ID:: 1781 Giotto7.jpg
Scenes from the Life of the Virgin 11 1303-05
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of Joachim 4 Painting ID:: 1782 Giotto8.jpg
Scenes from the Life of Joachim 4 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Detail of an Angel Painting ID:: 1783 Giotto9.jpg
Detail of an Angel 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of Joachim 1 Painting ID:: 1784 Giotto10.jpg
Scenes from the Life of Joachim 1 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto The Last Judgment 1 Painting ID:: 1785 Giotto11.jpg
The Last Judgment 1 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto The Ascension Painting ID:: 1786 Giotto12.jpg
The Ascension 1305-13
Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Scenes from the Life of Christ 1 Painting ID:: 1787 Giotto13.jpg
Scenes from the Life of Christ 1 Arena Chapel, Padua
Giotto Saint Francis Giving his Mantle to a Poor Man Painting ID:: 1788 Giotto14.jpg
Saint Francis Giving his Mantle to a Poor Man Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi
Giotto The Devils Cast Out of Arezzo Painting ID:: 1789 Giotto15.jpg
The Devils Cast Out of Arezzo Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi
Giotto St.Francis Mourned by St.Clare Painting ID:: 1790 Giotto16.jpg
St.Francis Mourned by St.Clare Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi
Giotto The Doctors of the Church Painting ID:: 1791 Giotto17.jpg
The Doctors of the Church Upper Church of San Francesco, Assisi
Giotto Madonna and Child Enthroned among Angels and Saints Painting ID:: 29694 new3/Giotto-826685.jpg
Madonna and Child Enthroned among Angels and Saints mk67
Tempera on panel
127 15/16x80 15/16in
Giotto Madonna and Child with SS.Nicholas.john the Evangelist,Peter and Benedict Painting ID:: 29695 new3/Giotto-366684.jpg
Madonna and Child with SS.Nicholas.john the Evangelist,Peter and Benedict mk67
Tempera on panel
35 13/16x133 7/8in
Giotto Recreation by our Gallery Painting ID:: 32514 new9/Giotto-438555.jpg
Recreation by our Gallery mk79
1304-1306
Giotto The Raising of Drusiana,Cappella Peruzzi Painting ID:: 33252 new9/Giotto-925842.jpg
The Raising of Drusiana,Cappella Peruzzi mk83
c.1320
Giotto The wedding to Guns De arouse-king of Lazarus, De bewening of Christ and Noli me tangera Painting ID:: 42608 new16/Giotto-733577.jpg
The wedding to Guns De arouse-king of Lazarus, De bewening of Christ and Noli me tangera MK169
details of the
fresco decoration ca.1304-13 Scrovegni-chapel Padua
Giotto Bewening of Christ Painting ID:: 42609 new16/Giotto-355264.jpg
Bewening of Christ MK169
detail of 9.80 Fresco 231x202cm
Giotto The death of the knight of Celano Painting ID:: 45498 new17/Giotto-627885.jpg
The death of the knight of Celano mk186
1297-1300 Assisi, San Francesco, waiter church
Giotto The Ascension Painting ID:: 51702 new19/Giotto-694738.jpg
The Ascension nn09
c.1305-13
Giotto Detail of the Flight into Egypt Painting ID:: 51727 new19/Giotto-794586.jpg
Detail of the Flight into Egypt mk009
c.1305-13
Giotto Detail of the Presentation at the Temple Painting ID:: 51728 new19/Giotto-737548.jpg
Detail of the Presentation at the Temple nn09
c.1305-13
Fresco
Giotto Detail of Joachim-s Dream Painting ID:: 51729 new19/Giotto-874797.jpg
Detail of Joachim-s Dream nn09
c.1305-13
Giotto Detail of The Lamentation Painting ID:: 51730 new19/Giotto-335276.jpg
Detail of The Lamentation nn09
c.1305-13
Giotto Detail of the Last Judgment Painting ID:: 51757 new19/Giotto-576466.jpg
Italian
1267-1337
Giotto Galleries
Giotto di Bondone (c. 1267 ?C January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the commune [of Florence] in virtue of his talent and excellence."
The later 16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari says of him "...He made a decisive break with the ...Byzantine style, and brought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years."
Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, commonly called the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance. That Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of the Florence Cathedral are among the few certainties of his biography. Almost every other aspect of it is subject to controversy: his birthdate, his birthplace, his appearance, his apprenticeship, the order in which he created his works, whether or not he painted the famous frescoes at Assisi, and where he was eventually buried after his death.