Giotto for Kids - Italian artist from the Middle Ages

Giotto


St. Francis giving away his cloak,
from Assisi, Italy

Giotto was an Italian painter, who was a student and contemporary of Donatello and Cimabue, around 1300 AD. He was originally from Florence, born about 1265.

Giotto (jee-OTT-oh) worked mainly in fresco painting. He is known for beginning to put in natural landscape backgrounds to his painting, as opposed to the plain gold backgrounds favored by the older Cimabue.

Giotto died in Florence in 1337 AD.


St. Francis receiving the stigmata

(about 1300 AD in Pisa) (Louvre Museum, Paris)


Here's a video of some more of Giotto's paintings, with music by Benedictine monks (followers of Benedict).


Cimabue (another Italian painter)
Donatello (another Italian painter)
The cathedral of Florence
The baptistery of Florence
Medieval art page
Main art page
Main medieval page




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