
Peter J. Murray
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LOCATION: Banbury, United Kingdom
Professor of the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1967–80. Author of Architecture of the Italian Renaissance; coauthor of A Dictionary of Art and Artists.
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Giotto was the most important Italian painter of the 14th century, whose works point to the innovations of the Renaissance style that developed a century later. For almost seven centuries, Giotto has been revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters. He is…
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