around 1267 -1337 · Florence, Padua and birth of a modern space

Heavy bodies, readable emotions and organized stories make Giotto the painter who gave the Italian Middle Ages a human, dramatic and profoundly new space.

Giotto di Bondone was probably born around 1267 near Florence. The stories of his apprenticeship with Cimabue are late, but his training fits well with the renewal of Tuscan painting at the end of the 13th century. Giotto gradually breaks with the frontality and abstraction of the Byzantine tradition. His figures have weight, occupy a floor, turn, embrace, cry and react to each other. The architectures become small, coherent spaces that guide the reading of the story. His figures become small, coherent spaces that guide the reading of the story. His most famous masterpiece is the cycle of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, painted around 1303 -1305. In a series of scenes dedicated to Joachim, Anne, the Virgin and the Christ, Giotto organizes gestures, looks, colors and silences with remarkable clarity. The Lamentation concentrates the lines of the landscape and the bodies around the dead Christ; The Kiss of Judas directly opposes betrayal and authority. In Florence, the Maestà of Ognissanti gives the throne and the Virgin a new volumetric presence. The Bardi and Peruzzi chapels of Santa Croce then recount the lives of Saint Francis and Saints John in more complex architectural settings. The Bardi and Peruzzi chapels of Santa Croce then recount the lives of Saint Francis and Saints John in more complex architectural settings. The Bardi and Peruzzi chapels of Santa Croce then recount the lives of Saint Francis and Saints John in more complex architectural settings. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Assisi, Rome, Naples and probably Avignon, leading an important workshop. Giotto also works in Died in 1337, he became the symbol of the revival of painting from Dante then Vasari. His influence runs through Masaccio, Michelangelo and the entire Western narrative tradition. The "Giotto di Bondone" selection notably compares Saint Francis receiving the stigmata and Stefaneschi Triptych. His reading favors the material.

Giotto gives weight to faith: saints occupy a floor, families touch and emotion becomes architecture as clear as the decor.