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Biography (1217 words) |
 | The earliest work attributed to Giotto is a series of frescoes on the life of St Francis in the church at Assisi. |
| The Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the Church of Santa Croce are adorned by Giotto's frescoes. |
| Giotto is regarded as the founder of the central tradition of Western painting because his work broke free from the stylizations of Byzantine art, introducing new ideals of naturalism and creating a convincing sense of pictorial space. |
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Giotto - MSN Encarta (445 words) |
| Giotto's scenes break with rigid medieval stylization to present human figures in rounded sculptural forms that appear to have been based on living models rather than on idealized archetypes. |
| The question of Giotto's authorship of the frescoes in the Upper Church at Assisi is an ongoing discussion among art historians. |
| Giotto's example was crucial to the development of later Florentine painting, and his preoccupation with the realities of the human figure and the visible world became the dominant concerns of the Florentine Renaissance. |
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