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Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
John Berger

Meaning of "Giotto" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD GIOTTO

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WHAT DOES GIOTTO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Giotto

Giotto di Bondone, known as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the Comune of Florence in virtue of his talent and excellence." The late-16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari describes Giotto as making a decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years." Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the life of the Virgin and the life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.

Definition of Giotto in the English dictionary

The definition of Giotto in the dictionary is also known as Giotto di Bondone. ?1267–1337, Florentine painter, who broke away from the stiff linear design of the Byzantine tradition and developed the more dramatic and naturalistic style characteristic of the Renaissance: his work includes cycles of frescoes in Assisi, the Arena Chapel in Padua, and the Church of Santa Croce, Florence.

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John Berger
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GIOTTO»

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Giotto:
Each volume includes all the necessary materials for the comprehensive study of a work of art: An illustration section showing the complete work of art, details, preliminary studies, and iconographic sources; An introductory essay by the ...
James H. Stubblebine, 1969
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Giotto: The Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
This beautiful series lavishly illustrates the world's major fresco cycles from the early fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries.
Bruce Cole, 1993
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Giotto. Ediz. inglese:
A magnificently illustrated series of monographs that explore the lives and works of some of the most famous, influential, and talented artists throughout history.
Alessandro Tomei, 1998
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Storytelling in Christian Art from Giotto to Donatello
In this book, Jules Lubbock examines some of the most famous of these pictorial narratives by artists of the caliber of Giovanni Pisano, Duccio, Giotto, Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Masaccio.
Jules Lubbock, 2006
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The Cambridge Companion to Giotto
Serving as an essential resource for students of late medieval and early Renaissance Italy, the book also provides a chronology of the artist's life and a select but comprehensive bibliography.
Anne Derbes, Mark Sandona, 2004
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Giotto and the Arena Chapel: art, architecture & experience
This volume is divided into two parts, the first presenting new evidence and reconstructions of the chapel's design and early history; the second offering new interpretations of Giotto's frescoes.
Laura Jacobus, 2008
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GIOTTO AND HIS PUBLICS
This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting.
Julian Gardner, Giotto, 2011
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Giotto's Harmony: Music and Art in Padua at the Crossroads ...
Indeed, Giotto's Harmony makes the case that the musical Renaissance, which is often believed to have its origins in the much later work of Dunstable and Dufay, has its roots in Padua's pre-humanist tradition, as reflected in the work of ...
Eleonora M. Beck, Nora M. Beck, 2005
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Painting in the Age of Giotto: A Historical Reevaluation
A revisionist interpretation of early Renaissance painting.Painting in the Age of Giotto is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 to 1370.
Hayden B. J. Maginnis, 2000
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Gardner's Art through the Ages: The Western Perspective
14-8 Giotto di Bondone, Madonna Enthroned, from the Church of Ognissanti, Florence, Italy, ca. 1310. Tempera and gold leaf on wood, 10 8 6 8. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Giotto displaced the Byzantine style in Italian painting and revived ...
Fred Kleiner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GIOTTO»

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Royal College of Art Degree Show 2015 Intriguing Practices And …
... Serra, the bawdy, kitsch sexuality of Paul McCarthy, and even the frescoes of Giotto and panels of Hieronymus Bosch are re-examined. «ArtLyst, Jul 15»
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CMU Leads Google Expedition To Create Technology For 'Internet …
Carnegie Mellon researchers will work with colleagues at Cornell, Stanford, Illinois and Google to create GIoTTO, a new platform to support IoT ... «RF Globalnet, Jul 15»
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Collector Agnes Gund on Artists
As Giotto bounds in, his wagging tail nearly swats a small blue aluminum-and-stone John Newman sculpture. Does she worry the dogs might ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
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3 of a kind: Concours will reunite rare sports cars
The low-slung, high-style cars were the brainchild of Giotto Bizzarrini, an engineer and designer who found fame in the 1950s with his work for ... «Hometownlife.com, Jul 15»
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Google Is Outfitting Carnegie Mellon With Smart Tech To Create A …
Google is looking to build up a platform to facilitate IoT applications called GIoTTO, which will develop cheap sensors, privacy measures, and ... «Fast Company, Jul 15»
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Early Christian and Medieval Heavens
In Giotto's Last Judgment (1306), not all of the saints gaze toward Jesus Christ. Some look at each other. Still, heaven is strictly hierarchical and ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
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Failing again to find Caravaggio
Marie Smith's swollen bronzes are unpleasant and their purported realism vague. Janet Mullarney's Giotto's Circle of papier-mâché and wire at ... «Village, Jul 15»
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New Orleans: We're getting a Trader Joe's (well, Metairie is)
... which includes Trader José's salsas, Trader Ming's fried rice, Trader Giotto's marinara sauces, and so many other specially purchased items. «bestofneworleans.com, Jul 15»
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College president spends over $100K of donor funds on wine …
College president spends over $100K of donor funds on wine, dining, hunting. By Lea Giotto July 8, 2015 6:18 pm. 1.3k shares. SHARE. TWEET. SMS. SEND. «USA TODAY College, Jul 15»
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Patricia Manfield Remixes Rihanna and Kills it in Street Style
Patricia Manfield hits the street style scene with a bang—often on the arm of her partner and boyfriend Giotto Calendoli or flanked by chic ... «HarpersBAZAAR.com, Jul 15»

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