Giotto di Bondone

1267-1337

Born to farmers in Colle di Vespignano near

Florence Legend says he was discovered by Cimabue

for an apprenticeship while he was drawing an image of his sheep on a stone

Friendship with King Robert of Naples allowed his art to have a greater freedom of speech element to it

Very prosperous life said to have married young and to have had six children

Biography

The Frescoes of St. Francis Basilica The Crucifix of Santa Maria Novella The Crucifix in Ognissanti Church Frescoes in the Basilica of Santa Croce Scrovegni Chapel Frescoes The Badia Polyptych Ognissanti Madonna

Famous Works of Art

Fresco- the art of painting on fresh, moist plaster

with pigments dissolved in water, durable results One of his earliest art works Located in the Chapel of St. Nicholas in the

Basilica of St. Francis Images include: Mary and baby Jesus, St. John the

Baptist, and St. Francis Restoration after a damaging earthquake in 1997,

found the initials “GB” on the frescoes, proving that Giotto di Bondone did create this work

The Frescoes of Assisi

St. Francis and St. Clara

http://scrumpdillyicious.blogspot.com/2012/03/assisi-birthplace-of-saint-francis.html

Basilica of St. Francis

Sermon of the Birds

Magnificent crucifix hanging high over the

center of the nave ~ between 1288 and 1289 Shows break from Byzantine styled work

The heaviness of Jesus’ body and sunken head contrasts with those of earlier works such a Cimabue’s crucifixes which show a more sculpted ideal body

Mary and John look down on Jesus from the horizontal ends of the cross

The Crucifix in Santa Maria Novella

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Giotto_di_Bondone_-_Crucifix.jpg

Uffizi, room 2

The Badia Polyptych, early 1300s

Ognissanti Madonna, 1310

Scrovegni Chapel in

Padua

http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/giotto/save-giotto-campaign-protect-scrovegni-chapel

http://www.artble.com/artists/giotto_di_bondone http://www.discovertuscany.com/tuscany-history-

and-culture/great-tuscans/giotto.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9658520/Assisi-fresco-restoration-proves-it-was-Giotto.html

http://www.casasantapia.com/art/giotto/crucifix.htm http://www.virtualuffizi.com/uffizi1/artista.asp?

Autore=Giotto

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