Stefano peccatori giotto biography

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Giottino (ca.

Stefano peccatori giotto biography

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Giottino, also known as Giotto di Stefano, was born around and lived in Florence until his death in the ’s, although the exact year of his death is unknown. His father, Maestro Stefano Florentino, was a famous Florentine painter who gained painterly prominence for his naturalistic style, earning him the nickname the “Scimmia della Natura” (“Ape of Nature”).

Giottino likely received painting instruction from his father, but looked strongly towards the great Giotto in the formation and development of his style. Much of Giottino’s written biographical history came from the writings of Vasari in his second writings titled Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

Giottino’s best known works include the Madonna della Sagra, a fresco painted in a small niche carved into the side of a building in a poor district in Florence.

The working-class audience in that neighborhood had complete access to this fresco and,