Giotto di Bondone
1266 - 1337 (71)
Wegbereiter der Renaissance; von Cimabue “entdeckt”; Papst Benedikt XII. holte ihn nach
Rom; 1334 wurde er leitender Baumeister am Dom von Florenz. Dessen Campanile trägt
seinen Namen, obwohl seine Nachfolger (die Fertigstellung erlebte er selbst nicht mehr),
etwa Andrea Pisano, von seinen Plänen erheblich abwichen.
His momentous achievement was recognized by his contemporaries (Dante praised him in
a famous passage of The Divine Comedy, where he said he had surpassed his master
Cimabue. In spite of his fame and the demand for his services, no surviving painting is
documented as being by him. His work, indeed, poses some formidable problems of
attribution, but it is universally agreed that the fresco cycle in the Arena Chapel at Padua is
by Giotto, and it forms the starting-point for any consideration of his work.
Giotto starb 1337 während der Arbeiten an einem Jüngsten Gericht in der Bargello-Kapelle
in Florenz.
Giotto Statue in Florenz
Loggiato degli Uffizi
Giotto (von Uccello) ca 1450 Louvre
