Giotto di bondone biografia
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Giotto di Bondone
«Credette Cimabue nella pittura / Tener lo campo, ed ora ha Giotto il grido/ sì, che la fama di colui oscura»
Dante, La Divina Comedia
Paolo Uccello – Portrait of giotto
En su «La Vida de los artistas», Giorgio Vasari escribió que cierto día, el pintor florentino Cimabue (c.1240-1302) iba caminando por el campo cuando observó sorprendido a un joven pastor, apenas un niño, que pintaba con tiza blanca e inusual soltura unas ovejas sobre una roca. Al preguntar el maestro por su nombre, el crío respondió: «me llamo Giotto, y mi padre se llama Bondone«.
Imagen: Paolo Uccello: presunto retrato de Giotto di Bondone
Sea cierta o no esta anécdota, lo cierto es que nos sirve para realizar una primera aproximación a Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337), el pintor que, con sus dotes inusualmente imaginativas, sus novedosas iconografías, y su destacable amor por la naturaleza y la expresión humana, revolucionó el Arte occidental hasta el punto de que se
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Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267 – 1337)
For other uses, see Giotto (disambiguation).
Giotto di Bondone (Italian:[ˈdʒɔttodibonˈdoːne]; c. 1267[a] – January 8, 1337),[2][3] known mononymously as Giotto[b], was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late mittpunkt Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period.[7] 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".[8]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".[9]
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Giotto
Know as “the great Giotto”, Giotto di Bondone was the leading artist at the start of Italy’s Renaissance and the Florentine School of painting. According to Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 1574), who dedicated a chapter to the painter in his The Lives of the Artists, Giotto was the tipping point of Italian art from the Byzantine style, into the Renaissance. It is said that that last great painter of the Byzantine era, Cimabue (1240 – 1302), discovered a young Giotto in his rawest form. As written by Vasari:
“One day Cimabue was going about his business between Florence and Vespignano, and he came upon Giotto who, while his sheep were grazing, was sketching one of them in a lifelike way with a slightly pointed rock upon a smooth and polished stone without having learned how to draw it from anyone other than Nature. This caused Cimabue to stop in amazement…”
It is from here that Cimabue brought Giotto into the bustling activity of the art world in Florence, where he excelled beyond