Giottino (
fl. 1324 – 1369), also known as Tommaso Fiorentino, was an early
Italian
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painter from
Florence
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. His real name was Maso di Stefano or Tommaso di Stefano.
Giottino's father, Maestro
Stefano Fiorentino, "Stefano the Florentine", was himself a celebrated painter in the school of Giotto; his naturalism earned him the appellation "Scimmia della Natura", the "Ape of Nature" for his perceived realism. He instructed his son, who applied himself to studying the works of
the great Giotto. Since he formed his style on Giotto's works, Maso became known as Giottino. the "little Giotto".
The frescoes in the chapel of San Silvestro in the
Florentine Basilica of Santa Croce are attributed to Giottino; these represent the miracles of Pope St Sylvester as narrated in the ''
Golden Legend
The ''Golden Legend'' (Latin: ''Legenda aurea'' or ''Legenda sanctorum'') is a collection of hagiographies by Jacobus de Voragine that was widely read in late medieval Europe. More than a thousand manuscripts of the text have survived.Hilary ...
''.
Many other works have been attributed to Giottino including ''Apparition of the Virgin to St Bernard'' and a marble statue erected on the
Florentine campanile.
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...
, the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, includes a biography of Giottino in the second part of his famous ''
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' (''Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri'').
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14th-century births
14th-century deaths
14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Florence
Trecento painters
Gothic painters
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