Giotto di Bondone was born in a farm area near Florence Italy around 1267 and died in 1337. He was one of the greatest artists ever to live and was considered to be the first Italian master. While growing up Giotto learned about nature by drawing pictures of flowers, mountains and animals while he watched his father's sheep. He later became a painter architect, and sculptor. Giotto According to a legend recorded by Lorenzo Cimabue discovered Giotto. The account states that while traveling in the countryside Cimabue came upon a shepherd drawing with chalk on a flat stone. Cimabue was so impressed that he offered to take the shepherd, Giotto, to Florence and train him in the artist's craft. As an apprentice Giotto was good enough to help Cimabue with his works in different cities in Italy. He is considered to have introduced many of the innovations that would characterize the Renaissance style in 15th-century paintings.
c. 1315-1320
Italiano: Vergine col Bambino, attribuita alla scu...
Clare of Assisi holding a lily, fresco byGiotto di...Giotto di Bondone was born in a farm area near Florence Italy around 1267 and died in 1337. He was one of the greatest artists ever to live and was considered to be the first Italian master. While growing up Giotto learned about nature by drawing pictures of flowers, mountains and animals while he watched his father's sheep. He later became a painter architect, and sculptor. Giotto According to a legend recorded by Lorenzo Cimabue discovered Giotto. The account states that while traveling in the countryside Cimabue came upon a shepherd drawing with chalk on a flat stone. Cimabue was so impressed that he offered to take the shepherd, Giotto, to Florence and train him in the artist's craft. As an apprentice Giotto was good enough to help Cimabue with his works in different cities in Italy. He is considered to have introduced many...