Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. He was an apprentice to the artist Cimabue, a Florentine painter who also trained Duccio, another famed Italian artist. A legend exists that Cimabue discovered Giotto, who had been tending sheep, drawing on a rock and recognized the boy's talent. Giotto's artistic career began before he was 10 years old; by age 20, he was working independently.The so-called Proto-Renaissance began around
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