Why Giotto Is the Father of Renaissance Painting

The artistic -and therefore historical- figure of Giotto is vital to understand the evolution that painting had during the 13th century and that later would end up being a revolution in the Renaissance. What little we know of his life we owe to <a href="https://medium.com/@alejandro.orradre/the-long-shadow-of-vasari-1542a8e43905" rel="noopener">Giorgio Vasari</a>, a well-known biographer during the Renaissance; he is considered the first in history. Although they were not contemporaries, the Italian compiled some data about Giotto. It even explained some anecdotes whose truthfulness cannot be proven, bringing a point of legend to the artists of those centuries. If we follow Vasari’s research, Giotto was born around 1267 in what we know today as Vicchio, but eight centuries ago was called Colle di Vespignano. Of his youth, the most remarkable (and vital for his future) was his pictorial apprenticeship at the hands of the master Cimabue, another fundamental painter of the proto-Renaissance. Giotto was his most advanced pupil and who would inherit part of his master’s vision when it came to the art of painting. The artistic context in which Giotto grew up was a significant influence when composing his paintings and works. His birth near Florence led him to develop his career in that locality, becoming part of a struggle between two artistic schools during that time: Siena and Florence. <a href="https://medium.com/the-collector/why-giotto-is-the-father-of-renaissance-painting-580165433cd0">Click Here</a>