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The Adoration of the Magi
Giotto di Bondone · possibly ca. 1320
- Artist
- Giotto di Bondone Italian, Florentine, 1266/76–1337
- Date
- possibly ca. 1320
- Medium
- Tempera on wood, gold ground
- Size
- 17 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (45.1 x 43.8 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1911 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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About Giotto di Bondone
Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously as Giotto, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic and Proto-Renaissance period. Giotto's contemporary, the banker and chronicler Giovanni Villani, wrote that Giotto was "the most sovereign master of painting in his time, who drew all his figures and their postures according to nature" and of his publicly recognized "talent and excellence". Giorgio Vasari described Giotto as making a decisive break from the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know i
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