GIOTTO

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• GIOTTO (noun)
  The noun GIOTTO has 1 sense:

1. Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)

  Familiarity information: GIOTTO used as a noun is very rare.

• GIOTTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Giotto; Giotto di Bondone

Instance hypernyms:

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

old master (a great European painter prior to 19th century)

 Context examples 

And I have seen the aged Giotto, and he in turn was pupil to Cimabue, before whom there was no art in Italy, for the Greeks were brought to paint the chapel of the Gondi at Florence.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)