Giotto

The painter and architect Giotto was born in Colle di Vespignano around 1267 and died in Florence in 1337. He studied under Giovanni Cimabue, the leading artist in Florence at the time. Giotto is considered the founder of modern figurative art and one of the most authoritative forerunners of the Renaissance. Some of his most famous works are his frescoes in the Upper Church of San Francesco in Assisi, a Crucifixion in Santa Maria Novella in Florence, and the frescoes of the Peruzzi and Bardi chapels in the Church of Santa Croce, also in Florence.