Giotto

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When one takes a look at art and how it has developed it’s hard to not recognize the important movements in art. Just a few examples of these movements start with the Byzantine movement, the Renaissance, Cubism, and Dadaism. If you look at art and think of it as a person you can look at each movement as a stage in that person’s life. The renaissance could in turn be thought of as adolescence. There are so many important things that occurred during this time that it’s hard to sum it up in one sentence. However, I would say that Renaissance means "rebirth"(c.1400-1550) it began in Italy, and stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic symbol of space based on perspective, and worldly subjects. The works of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael illustrate the balance and harmony of the High Renaissance (c. 1495-1520). Although many great artists came up out of the Renaissance there were those that were pre-renaissance such as Giotto (c.1267-1337) who inspired and sparked the start of the renaissance. The aftermath of the renaissance brought in a whole new meaning and a way to look at art. One of the most influential periods directly following the renaissance was the mannerist movement that introduced great artists such as Parmigianino.
The name Giotto and his works represent a time when the thought of “paint what you see” was not only hard to comprehend but completely new. Art no longer worked on the traditional abstract ideas, its models were to be the actuality of nature. Representation of real life was to become the object of all painting. From this time forth there must always be a likeness between the painting and the object painted. For so long painting to represent as means of symbolism was all that art was. The name Giotto is representational of a time when all of Europe was craving a change. Giotto came along and blew the minds of all involved in the art world he was said by Boccaccio to have “Brought th...