Ego giotto biography for kids
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Giotto facts for kids
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This face in the decorations of the Peruzzi Chapel, might be Giotto's portrait of himself. Ego giotto biography for kids(digitally restored) | |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting, Fresco |
Notable work | Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, Campanile |
| Movement | Gothic |
Giotto di Bondone (c.1267–January 81337), usually known as Giotto, was an Italianpainter and architect from Florence.
He is generally thought of as the first in a line of great artists of the Italian Renaissance.
Giovanni Villani, who lived at the same time as Giotto, wrote that he was the king of painters, who drew all his figures as if they were alive.
Villani says that, because he was so clever, the city of Florence gave him a salary.
In the 16th century, the biographer Giorgio Vasari says that Giotto changed painting from the Byzantine style of other artists of his day, and brought to life the great art of painting as it was made by the later Renaissance painters like Leo