Giotto

also known as Giotto di Bondone. ?1267--1337, Florentine painter, who broke away from the stiff linear design of the Byzantine tradition and developed the more dramatic and naturalistic style characteristic of the Renaissance: his work includes cycles of frescoes in Assisi, the Arena Chapel in Padua, and the Church of Santa Croce, Florence

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Giotto

(jot -oh) An ESA spacecraft launched in July 1985 into Earth orbit from where it was fired into a trajectory that intercepted the path of Halley's comet on Mar. 13, 1986. Giotto was steered deep into the comet's coma to within 600 km of the cometary nucleus. Data was gathered over a period of about 10 hours. Its 10 instruments recorded many images at various wavelengths, measured the composition of the coma and the mass, distribution, and composition of the dust tail, and analyzed the dynamics of the cometary plasma and its interaction with the solar wind. Though damaged by multiple impacts, Giotto continued its mission.

After a period of ‘hibernation’, the spacecraft was retargeted by an Earth flyby so that it would intersect the comet Grigg–Skjellerup on July 12, 1992. It flew by at a distance of 200 km on the antisun side. Dust, gas, and plasma were investigated but the camera that had been so successful at Halley did not operate.

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In 1304, however, Giotto painted The Adoration of the Magi, in which he pictured the star of Bethlehem as a comet, and seems to have let the comet of 1301 guide his brush.

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They might have seen that image as very like the mirror image of a beagle, but as they were not bent upon projects in which the mirror image was an ideal or a rival, they might have had as great a difficulty accepting it as art as Giotto's contemporaries would have had accepting Picasso or Kandinsky.

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In conjunction with other evidence she uses this to show that there were two earlier images, one certainly a stained glass window, before the present panel, not by Giotto, replaced them.

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As commentary, Giotto offers us two smaller scenes illustrating the importance Francis placed on working for and through the church.

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When Mister Giotto runs into trouble trying to finish his Nativity fresco in the Scrovegni Chapel young Mario dreams up a wonderful solution in this holiday-inspired introduction to the work of Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone.

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While Le Witt said, "I want to produce something I would not be ashamed to show Giotto," McNally has added, "I want to get blotto, play Lotto, and throw some risotto at a Giotto."

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