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Giotto Di Bondone

1267-1337

One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time

Early Renaissance Florentine Painter and Architect

Stylistically influenced by the following painters -  Coppo di Marcovaldo,  Duccio di Buoninsegna, Cimabue, and Byzantine Style Painting

Education -apprentice toCimabue

Cause of Death -  old age, he was 70

Mediums - Tempera  on oak panel

Giotto's Biography

Giotto sent his formative years apprenticed to Cimabue. Author John C.

Van Dyke asserted "Cimabue's pupil, Giotto, was a great improver on all his predecessors because he was a man of extraordinary genius. He would have been great in any time, and yet he was not great enough to throw off wholly the Byzantine traditions.

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