Giotto

How To Use Giotto In A Sentence

• Giotto painted upon wood, and in "distemper" -- the mixture of colour with egg or some other jelly-like substance. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People
• In 1986, ESA's Giotto spacecraft performed the closest comet fly-by ever achieved by any spacecraft (at a distance of 600 kilometres from Halley).
• The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua. Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals
• French trot, everie step being ready to hoise him out of his saddle, hearing Giottos discreete answers to every ydle question he made (for indeede he was a very elegant speaker) began to peruse and surveigh him, even from the foote to the head, as we use to say. The Decameron
• To-day, if you walk through Florence, the City of Flowers, you will still see its fairest flower of all, the tall white campanile or bell-tower, 'Giotto's tower' as it is called. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters
• Alberti mentions only one post-classical work of art - Giotto's Navicella mosaic - but he cites many classical literary sources describing vanished works.
• The great three-bay Crucifixion in S. Giacomo, filled with incident and genre detail but controlled by a compositional rigour looking both to Giotto and to Roman relief sculpture, is representative.
• Previous to Giotto, the cardinal virtues had been depicted only rarely in Italian art, although Roman - esque mosaic pavements in Pavia and Cremona show scenes of the psychomachia involving other sets of virtues. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• He called Giotto to Rome and gave him constant occupation. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
• He, having had this son, to whom he gave the name Giotto, reared him conformably to his condition; and when he had come to the age of ten, he showed in all his actions, although childish still, a vivacity and readiness of intelligence much out of the ordinary, which rendered him dear not only to his father but to all those also who knew him, both in the village and beyond. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi