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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Giotto di Bondone, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Duccio, Simone Martini, Gentile da Fabriano, Giovanni Pisano, Pietro Cavallini, Jacopo di Cione, Bartolo di Fredi, Taddeo di Bartolo, Pietro Lorenzetti, Taddeo Gaddi, Nardo di Cione, Puccio Capanna, Giovanni da Milano, Antonio Veneziano, Niccolo da Bologna, Segna di Bonaventura, Jacopo del Casentino, Altichiero, Orcagna, Agnolo Gaddi, Antonio Bamboccio, Andrea Vanni, Bernardo Daddi, Francesco di Vannuccio, Lorenzo di Bicci, Lippo Memmi, Puccio di Simone, Jacopo di Mino del Pellicciaio, Jacopo Avanzo, Cristoforo Orimina, Barna da Siena, Maso di Banco, Giovanni di Bartolomeo Cristiani, Vitale da Bologna, Jacopo d'Avanzi, Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Barnaba da Modena, Giottino, Master of the Rebel Angels, Franco Bolognese, Piero di Puccio, Simone da Bologna, Pietro Giovanni Leonori, Montano d'Arezzo, Luca di Tomme, Cristoforo da Bologna, Piero da Rimini, Filippo Scannabecchi, Cecco di Pietro, Gennaro di Cola, Giovanni da Santo Stefano da Ponte, Simone da Cusighe, Filippo Tesauro, Giovanni d'Asciano, Aghinetti, Andrea da Bologna, Naddo Ceccarelli. Excerpt: Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 - January 8, 1337), better known simply as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. Giotto's contemporary Giovanni Villani wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature. And he was given a salary by the Comune of Florence in virtue of his talent and excellence." The late-16th century biographer Giorgio Vasari says of him: "e made a decisive break with the crude traditional Byzantine style, and brought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing th...
