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Giotto di Bondone
The following biography information provides basic facts and information about the key dates and events in the life of Giotto di Bondone who was famous as a Medieval Italian artist of the early Renaissance. Major paintings of Giotto di Bone: Noli me tangere, The Last Supper and Madonna and Child 

Short Biography profile, timeline and facts about the life of Giotto di Bondone
The following biography information provides basic facts and information about the life and history of Giotto di Bondone a famous Medieval character of the mittpunkt Ages:

• Nationality: Italian
• Also Known by the nickname: Giotto di Bone
• Lifespan: -
• Date of Birth: He was born about in the by of Vespignano, near Florence
• Family connections : He was the son of a small landed farmer. Giorgio Vasari
• Early Life and Education: Apprentice to Cimabue
• Married with six children 
• Career and Timeline of Giotto di Bondone:
  • Giotto worked for the Bardi's and
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  Ciao! Hello! My name is Giotto di Bondone, but you can just call me Giotto, (pronounced Zhot-toe) for most people only use my first name.

  Let me tell you my story. I was born near Firenze, Italia – but I guess you say, Florence, Italy.

  Florence was known as a fine city for the arts soon after I lived, but when Rome fell to barbarians in AD, they destroyed all of the art of the Roman Empire.

  It took awhile for art to come back into style. It mostly came through the Catholic Church …

  … in paintings and mosaics (that is pictures made of cut glass)…

  … which were used to teach religious stories…

   … but the church had strict rules about paintings. They didn’t even look real because the people looked flat, they showed no emotion or movement, and the paintings lacked perspective.

  As I grew up, I helped my father by watching his sheep, and I passed my time drawing pictures of things like flowers and trees, mountains, and animals.

  Eventually, I h

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  #Giving4Giotto

  This fundraising campaign is focused on conserving an extraordinary work of art executed by Giotto: the Stories of St. Francis frescoed in the early 14th century for the Bardi chapel in Santa Croce.

  The restoration of the cycle of frescoes coming over sixty years after the gods intervention, is a unique opportunity to rediscover the great communicative strength of Giotto and learn the secrets and technique of the artist within one of the greatest and most famous Franciscan basilicas in the world.

  The works will involve the whole of the chapel and we have already started thanks to private funding and now we just need you, and your generosity to help to complete it; each and every contribution is precious and will help us to save this marvelous work of art, an authentic expression of the historical, cultural and spiritual legacy of Santa Croce.

  Giotto in Santa Croce

  Giotto, was a 14th century Florentine artist, considered the father of Italian painting who