s synthesis fifty years after Giotto's death, underscoring the revolutionary character of Giotto's painting.
             Born in 1267, he must have been active before the last decade of thirteenth century.
             Giotto worked for the Bardi's and the Peruzzi's, the Florentine families who owned the most important European banks of the thirteenth century. He worked for the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, which was the most important church of Christianity at the time; he worked for the Pope, for the richest and most influential citizen of Padova (Scrovegni), for the chapel and main altar of the Basilica of San Pietro in Rome, for the king
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