How to use in-sentence of “giotto”:
+ Francis of Assisi as being the work of Giotto is ignoring modern scholarship on the matter.
+ The sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti wrote that in 1318 Giotto began to paint four Chapels at the Church of Santa Croce.
+ He was known for his works with Vittorio Gregotti and Giotto Stoppino.
+ The Pope sent a messenger asking Giotto to send him back a small picture.
+ His name Giotto might have been a nickname from Ambrogiotto.Sarel Eimerl, “The World of Giotto“, Time-Life Books.
+ He believed that the change towards the great art of the Renaissance began with Giotto around 1300.
+ As he grew old, Giotto became friends with two writers, Giovanni Boccaccio and Sacchetti, who both thought that he was such an entertaining and famous person that they wrote about him in their stories.
Example sentences of “giotto”:
+ Around 1280, Giotto and Cimabue went to Rome, where there were several fresco painters.
+ The figures that Giotto painted are solid and three-dimensional.
+ In the 16th century, the biographer Giorgio Vasari says that Giotto changed painting from the Byzantine style of other artists of his day, and brought to life the great art of painting as it was made by the later Renaissance painters like Leonardo da Vinci.
+ Fra Angelico would have seen the famous pictures of the “Life of Saint Francis” that Giotto did for the church of Santa Croce in Florence.
+ Any website that claims that Giotto was placed in charge of the decoration of the “Upper Church” or was selected as the “most suitable” artist for its decoration is making an unsourced claim.
+ It tells the stories of the lives of Italian artists from Giotto who lived around 1300 to Michelangelo who was still alive when Vasari was writing his book.
+ In the 1320s Giotto painted two large altarpieces.
+ They think that Giotto‘s family was quite rich, and they moved to Florence where Giotto was sent to Cimabue’s workshop as an apprentice.
+ Florence is so famous for the arts that students like Vasari have been going there to learn painting and sculpture, ever since Giotto in the 1200s.
+ Vasari also tells the story that the Pope wanted to see if Giotto would be a good artists to paint some important pictures.
+ The writer Giorgio Vasari says that Giotto brought about a complete change in painting, with a more natural style.
+ Around 1280, Giotto and Cimabue went to Rome, where there were several fresco painters.
+ The figures that Giotto painted are solid and three-dimensional.
+ This more natural way of showing people was started by Pietro Cavallini, but Giotto took the new ideas much further.
+ Many famous artists had lived in Florence, starting with Cimabue and Giotto in the 1200s.
+ The main personalities in this century were: Dante Alighieri ; Guittone d’Arezzo; Cimabue; Giotto di Bondone; Guido da Siena; Nicola Pisano; Arnolfo di Cambio and others.
+ In 1311 Giotto returned to Florence.
+ Although Vasari wrote about Giotto‘s life, it is not known how many of the stories are true, because Vasari was writing more than 200 years after Giotto died.
+ Italian Renaissance art is a style of painting and sculpture that began in the late 13th century with the work of the painter Giotto and a sculptor Nicola Pisano.
+ He is thought of as one of the greatest painters of his day, but has never been as well known as Giotto from Florence, who was alive at the same time.
+ Indeed the Trecento begins with the works of the painter Giotto and includes Taddeo Gaddi, Orcagna, Altichiero and the sculptor Nicola Pisano.