Friske giotto di bondone biography

Giotto Di Bondone. Early Renaissance Florentine Painter and Architect. Education -apprentice to Cimabue. Giotto sent his formative years apprenticed to Cimabue. Author John C. Van Dyke asserted "Cimabue's pupil, Giotto, was a great improver on all his predecessors because he was a man of extraordinary genius.

John William Godward was born on August 9 th, He was the eldest of five children of John Godward and Sarah Eborall.

He would have been great in any time, and yet he was not great enough to throw off wholly the Byzantine traditions. He tried to do it. He studied nature in a general way, changed the type of face somewhat by making the jaw squarer, and gave it expression and nobility. To the figure he gave more motion, dramatic gesture, life. The drapery was cast in broader, simpler masses, with some regard for line, and the form and movement of the body were somewhat emphasized through it.

18th-century art has until recently occupied a curiously neglected position in art history.

In methods Giotto was more knowing, but not essentially different from his contemporaries; his subjects were from the common stock of religious story; but his imaginative force and invention were his own. Bound by the conventionalities of his time he could still create a work of nobility and power. He came too early for the highest achievement.

He had genius, feeling, fancy, almost everything except accurate knowledge of the laws of nature and art.