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Libro di Antonio Billi

Florentine art history

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information on Giotto’s life

  • Giotto: Lamentation
    In Giotto: Early life

    …two known versions of the Libro di Antonio Billi, a 16th-century collection of notes on Florentine artists. In the Codex Petrei version, a statement that Giotto was born in 1276 at Vespignano, the son of a peasant, occurs at the very end of the “Life” and may have been added…

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