Vol. 1: Life Giotto (1334) is the first European artist about whom it is possible to write following the schema of "life and work". The situation of the sources

This book is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 - 1370.

The artist who influenced the whole of the Italian Renaissance, of whom Vasari wrote "GIOTTO restored the link between art and nature."

Giotto is considered by many to be the founder of modern painting. This thesis is discussed and modified in the present volume on an empirical basis. What emerg