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Dona Dibbing Grotto (Grotto did Bond one 1267 年 -1337 years) before the Italian Renaissance period of the dark Middle Ages in Europe distinguished sculptor, painter and architect, is recognized as a pioneer of the Italian Renaissance, was as the "father of European painting.”In Chinese the same as the English call it, just call him Grotto, Grotto. Art historians believe that Joe should be his real name, instead of Imbroglio (Ambrogiotto) or Angelo (Angiolotto) abbreviation.

Grotto cheerful, lively, witty, humorous. He was born in Florence 1) near 韦斯皮亚诺 rural, poor peasant father. Grotto small mountain sheep, and later worked as an apprentice in the painting Square and helpers. He is a painter Imbue student. Grotto boyhood likes to draw. His side of the sheep whiles a small stone or stick on the ground to draw some natural features or by grazing of the small goat. One day, Imbue passed by here, see the painting he is squatting on the ground and found his extraordinary talent, they followed him to Florence to study painting. Grotto made rapid progress, he not only outstanding works from the past and present celebrity to draw nutrients, but also broke the medieval art of painting a lack of vitality of the defect, creating a lot of religious paintings with the breath of life. He does not like stiff Byzantine style of painting ﹝ talon-Byzantine ﹞, he believes religious figures such as Virgin and Jesus, but also human beings, so he has stepped up portrait of a sense of texture and shadows, will also be the last plate of gold or blue background to perspective drawing of the general landscape. This breakthrough in access to religious preferences, to make him popular.

Grotto was in Florence, Rome, Bad Dow, Naples, Milan, Bologna, Pisa, Verona, Ferrara, etc. produced murals.

He works full three-dimensional, and to replace the natural features consistent with a medieval painting of gold and blue background.
From 1305 to 1308, Grotto chapel in Badwoman tired that created a set of murals in the church of the left, middle, third from right side of the wall painted with a total of 38 comic books, its content is depicted the life of the Virgin and Christ deeds.
These paintings known as "the 14th-century Italian art of the important monuments." To all the well-preserved frescoes, visitors flocked to the church to become one of the world's important art treasures.
A tired that many in the church's frescoes, the most famous of the four is: "Golden Gate Club", "flee Egypt," "Judas Kiss" and "mourning of Christ", the latter two are the most famous masterpieces of Grotto.
June 1334, Florence Cathedral, Grotto’s bell tower design, and design of some relief for this building. That year, the Florence Government of the Republic awarded him the "artist" title.
Grotto in art and ideas to create a humanist realism of the performance of the method for controlling the development of painting laid the foundation. Impact of Grotto’s painting in Italy over a century.

Additional information on the historical background material:

Grotto can be said that St. Francis denominations (St. Francis) historical painter. St. Francis was in 1215 by the Christian sect Saint Shengfalanxi (Saint Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226. Also translated St. Francis) founded a sect. Doctrine in grams bitter self-esteem, compassion for the weak-based. Thirteenth century, was originally a medieval dark ages ended, the era of human found a ray of hope is the birth of Dante, Francis Bacon, Thomas Aquinas (Thomas Aquinas) era. Shengfalanxi sermon at the time of penance that is not only a religious doctrine should be worshiped, and its sacred legends, magnificent ceremonies, saint’s row above, the Bible records, the human mind are the most intimate emotional performance. Previously been recognized religion is terrible, Shengfalanxi filling the religion into the public kind of comforter. His praise of nature, praise bio. According to legend, when he was preaching to the birds, called Swallow "My Yam percent," said the tree as "tree of my brother." He said Virgin was a loving mother, Jesus was a Johnson child, and the entire world is love of a mother, like son. He wanted people to know is full of boundless love of religion and conversion convinced, regarded as a spiritual master. Shengfalanxi so merciful love of the teachings in the art is simply a new material. Clearly, the past performance of this painting is not enough to his mouth and tears of the mood of tenderness. Grotto’s frescoes, that is to adapt to this new mood and the emergence of new art.

Grotto personal history, little precise information about the full funding basis. According to legend, he is a thoughtful and intelligent people in, and Dante Affinities, at the time was considered a very knowledgeable person. Florentine commission presided over the construction of the local bell tower of Grotto, there was a resolution the following: "In this as in many other career, as the world's more than he can no longer find a qualified person."

Art has a revolutionary formula that will never change: When an art becoming rigid and sluggish and can not re-performance of the trend of the times when, must return to nature, learn a new phase of their artistic inspiration.

Modern painting Grotto is said to start 祖契马布埃 (Imbue) students. But when his childhood in the desolate mountains depicted nature. Therefore, he a teacher's studio, away from the traditional into law and will be able to return to him from the nature of the lesson - simple and plain up. His art is the art of performance Shengfalanxi doctrine. His simple way, without guessing the mood, the most pure and simple enough to recognize Shengfalanxi of the religion of love. From now on, those hanging in the air of saints and the Virgin, wearing a heavy gold back, inlaid with precious stones up the image, not the heart and soul of people excited. At this time, Grotto on the walls of the church, the moving story of Francis, the lovely Lady and Jesus, the prophets and apostles, a group picture of a group down, are recorded as was the profile of these religious stories, like the thirteen people in the fourth century Byzantine painting was for the rich and beautiful does not have passion and faith.

Grotto’s drawing and composition is also simple, simple. This is the Grotto features. All works of Grotto have a simple and solemn beauty. Such as the United States and other beauty is a harmony. B. Braun family of modern artist Jackson (B. Beefalo) has commented: "The painting reveals the passionate, life, confession, and the gods of the converts, since the beginning of Grotto, which is also the dark Middle Ages in Europe before the Renaissance There are paintings by the spirit, then, Grotto’s is considered the pioneer of the Renaissance Florentine school of painting with the ancestor, whether from the spirit or the form is concerned, however, are precise and appropriate reviews of the.

Dante arts community is a medieval-style figures last painter Grotto, is the first new age artist. Although still the subject of his paintings of religious content-based, although his paintings also similar to the medieval barbarian art with childlike, but his painting is hidden and religious culture and the independent spirit of secular art with the independent barbarian objective spirit. In fact, this is a Greek and Roman classical art of the human spirit and the "imitation that" the nature of reproduction. From Grotto’s "Madonna on the throne", although the composition of its medieval layout almost did not go beyond the artist's practice, but his paintings have not see the magnificent decorative taste and floating in the air if the fairy figures listed; that solid volume, the space that reflects the depth of Grotto’s paintings and medieval painting of the obvious differences, this difference is not so much technique, but rather ideas. Grotto new artistic concept, not only in his art created a simple, fresh, solemn, heavy aesthetic realm, but also for future generations to provide a natural expression of the art research and experimental approach. From Grotto, the Western artists only gradually realize that only visible objective material world, is to obtain true knowledge, inexhaustible source of important.