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.
(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).
