Word: giotto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simone Martini, or Memmi, was reputedly a pupil of Giotto. He is best known for his Annunciation triptych in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence...
...Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father? The National Father's Day Committee has searched for two years for a painting that would bring Father out of the nowhere into the here. The committee checked over 3,000 paintings by celebrated artists, from Giotto to Grant Wood, last week-with Father's Day (June 15) just ahead-gave up the search...
...dark forests in which the story of early medieval Europe was enacted," he claims, forgetting that both John Ruskin and Oswald Spengler made the point long ago. The Renaissance was the product of nasty weather. Rain, cold, floods, plagues, famines, sunspots flourished in the 14th Century. Result: Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, the Medicis. Confessed Leonardo da Vinci: "All the genius that I have comes from the air [climate] of my native province." When the weather cleared, Italian genius dozed off again in the sunshine...