Giotto

How To Use Giotto In A Sentence

• Giotto's frescos run in four bands along facing walls of the chapel, depicting (from top to bottom) scenes from the life of Mary, scenes from the life of Christ, and allegorizations of virtues and vices.
• Giotto's place in the history of Western art is more complex than the received tradition allows.
• It is not so notable as exhibiting the mind of Giotto, which is perhaps more fully seen in subjects representing varied emotion, as in the simplicity and repose which were peculiar to the compositions of the early fourteenth century. Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel
• In Mosan art she is sometimes identified by a bridle (Tervarent, 1964), but in spite of Theodulf's poem, this is the rarest of her attributes, until it is revived by Giotto early in the fourteenth century and popularized by Raphael in the sixteenth. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• Giotto, Cimabue, de Fabriano, Fra Angelico, Uccello, Botticelli, Filipo Lippi, da Vinci, Raphael. THE GOLDEN LION
• Theirs was no retrograde revival of past styles, but a reworking of Giotto and the Italian primitives through a modernist lens, specifically, the ironic classicism of Giorgio de Chirico.
• Giotto, with a pencil, by a single motion drew so perfect a circle that it was thought to be a miracle, and this gave rise to a proverb still much used in Italy: -- _Piu tondo che l'O di Giotto_, or, A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
• This, and the remaining frescoes, are not attributed to Giotto.
• Nobody would have understood me if I had called Giotto, 'Ambrose Bondone;' or Tintoret, Robusti; or even Raphael, Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving
• Giotto was launched in July 1985 and almost 70 percent of its original instruments remained intact.