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Giotto as innovator

Inspiring the Renaissance


Giotto broke with older traditions by creating art that was more naturalistic, more true to life. Generations of painters from Tuscany, including Michelangelo, studied and copied his work. A chronicler of Florentine history in Giotto's lifetime described him as an artist who "more than any other, drew every figure and pose from life."

Examine the subjects' dimensional presence and expressive gestures.
Giotto as imagined by an artist of the 1800s