On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to ...

Born around 1267 in a village near Florence, Giotto di Bondone was a pivotal figure in Western art. According to Giorgio Vasari's "Lives of the Artists," the shepherd boy was discovered by ...

Giotto di Bondone (c1267-1337) is a founding presence in Western painting. The Florentine master introduced 3D, in the solid volumes of his bodies and receding depths of his spaces.

Completed by Giotto in 1305, the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes, in Padua, Italy, upended traditional art of the Middle Ages and set the stage for the Italian Renaissance.

They were accomplished painters, manuscript illuminators, and, in some cases, stained-glass artists.Giotto di Bondone may be the best known of the bunch, as […] Skip to content.

In his masterful Adoration of the Magi, completed in 1304, the Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone reproduced the iconic Christmas scene where the travelers from the East meet baby Jesus.Up in ...

The Independent's Great Art series ...