Florentine Giotto may be the most important Italian painter of the 14th century. His work points to the Renaissance style that developed about 100 years later. He showed a lot of talent at a very young age and is said to have been apprenticed to the great Florentine painter Cimabue. He was almost a completely self-taught artist. He would always be working on what he loved. His work pointed to the Renaissance style that developed a century later. “Although Giotto was widely considered a pioneer in his adherence to naturalism, choosing to move away from traditional Byzantine stylizations, he took his cue from other Italian painters of the school of the Marmoraria”, (in Giotto di Bondone). Florentine Giotto enjoyed painting his projects the most
