His renewed interest in Giotto resulted in more rigidly constructed compositions with fewer concessions to descriptive detail. |
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In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft. |
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Most art history books cite Giotto as the first great painter of the Renaissance. |
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John Baldesssari received a second trophy and made an even shorter one, thanking Giotto, Goya, Matisse, Duchamp, and Sol LeWitt. |
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The city is home to many great works by Michelangelo, Botticelli and Giotto and Florentines are justifiably proud of their city's place in the annals of Italian art history. |
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In 1290 Giotto began painting in a manner that was less traditional and more based upon observation of nature. |
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From Giotto on, the treatment of composition by the best painters also became much more free and innovative. |
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Giotto and Lorenzo Ghiberti also contributed to the cathedral. |
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Artists like Giotto, Fra Angelico and Pietro Lorenzetti in Italy, and Early Netherlandish painting, brought realism and a more natural humanity to art. |
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