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Giotto

1267 - 1337

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Giotto di Bondone (Italian: [ˈdʒɔtto di bonˈdoːne]; c. 1267 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler 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 of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "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". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giotto is the 22nd most popular painter (up from 36th in 2019), the 49th most popular biography from Italy (up from 78th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Italian Painter.

Giotto is most famous for his frescoes in the Arena Chapel in Padua, Italy.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Giotto ranks 22 out of 2,023. Before him are Diego Velázquez, Henri Matisse, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, and Paul Gauguin. After him are Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, El Greco, Wassily Kandinsky, and Piet Mondrian.

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Among people born in 1267, Giotto ranks 1. After him are James II of Aragon, Roger de Flor, Rainier I of Monaco, Lord of Cagnes, Emperor Go-Uda, and Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen. Among people deceased in 1337, Giotto ranks 2. Before him is Musa I of Mali. After him are Frederick III of Sicily, William I, Count of Hainaut, and Tino di Camaino.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giotto ranks 49 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Benedict XV (1854), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Alessandro Volta (1745), Brutus the Younger (-85), Ötzi (-3345), and Pope Urban VII (1521). After him are Pope Clement VII (1478), Juan Carlos I of Spain (1938), Donatello (1386), Tiberius (-42), Horace (-65), and Pope Gregory XVI (1765).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giotto ranks 5. Before him are Michelangelo (1475), Raphael (1483), Caravaggio (1571), and Sandro Botticelli (1445). After him are Donatello (1386), Titian (1488), Amedeo Modigliani (1884), Masaccio (1401), Tintoretto (1518), Paolo Veronese (1528), and Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526).

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