Giotto born near Florence
1267
In a farmhouse in the Mugello hills, the son of a peasant who would remake the grammar of European painting was born. Before he died he would put living flesh back into Byzantine icons and teach Tuscan frescoes how to weep. Cimabue is said to have found him drawing sheep.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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