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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 ( – ), 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.
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It is said that that last great painter of the Byzantine era, Cimabue ( – ), 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 measure of the