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The Italian founder of Gothic Giotto di Bondone : Textbook
Giotto di Bondone was born in 1266/1267 as the son of a farmer named Bondone Colle di Vespignano near Florence, to which the family then moved. There, Giotto was apprenticed to the painter Cimabue. Cimabue discovered his talent. Cimabue saw one of the sheep drawn with charcoal on the stone. Giotto perfectly drew the circle and the fly without a compass, which Cimabue then chased away from his painting. In 1287 Giotto married a girl named Ciuta in Florence and had four daughters and four sons with her. Giotto befriended Dante Alighieri in Florence. Both observed themes from the life of St. Francis decorated the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi and thereby founded the Gothic style in painting. Vasari reports that he saw the descent of the Stigmatization of St. Francis of Assisi in the church of St. Francis in Pisa signature of the painter: OPUS IOCTI FLORENTINI. 1303-1305 it is documented that the banker Enrico Scrovegni ordered and Giotto the fresco decoration of the "Arena" chapel in Padua with a mosaic designed by Giotto. In 1303-1305, Giotto painted in Rome a design for the Navicella (Boat of the Church) mosaic on the facade of the old Basilica of St. Peter. 1306-1312 the painter lives in Florence and paints tempera on poplar wood vol. Maesta d'Ognissanti. 1312 is the date of the will of a Florentine burgher, alerting a certain miller to the cross in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, still preserved in its place. In 1315, the painter contributed to the fresco decoration of the Lower Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. From April 8, 1328 to the spring of 1332, Giotto is called to Naples at the court of King Robert of Anjou and receives a monthly salary, as he works in the chapels of the royal castle of Castel Nuovo in Naples. In April 1334, Giotto was called to Florence and appointed capomaestro of the Cathedral of Santa Reparata (Santa Maria del Fiore). The bell tower of the cathedral - the Campanile, which he began designing in July 1334, was ordered from him. In 1335 he works in Florence, but in 1336 he is called to Milan to paint for Azzone Visconti. He returns to Florence in the early days of 1337. On January 8, 1337, Giotto di Bondone dies in Florence.