Biografia
The first of the great personalities in Florentine painting was Giotto. Although he affords no exception to the rule that the great Florentines exploited all the arts in the endeavor to express themselves, he, Giotto, renowned as an architect and sculptor, reputed as wit and versifier, differed from most of his Tuscan successors in having a peculiar aptitude for the essential in painting as an art . "Well, it was of the power to stimulate the tactile consciousness of the essential, as I have ventured to call it, in the art of painting that Giotto was supreme master. This is his everlasting ...
Biographies of: Giotto
See Also

Sebastiano del Piombo
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Adolfo Wildt
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Agnolo Gaddi
1350 · 15/10/1396
Nicolò Matas
Ancona 1798 · Firenze 1872
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