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); [syn: Giotto, Giotto di Bondone]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Giotto
n 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) [syn: Giotto, Giotto di Bondone]