Giotto

• “Giotto, with a pencil, by a single motion drew so perfect a circle that it was thought to be a miracle, and this gave rise to a proverb still much used in Italy: -- _Piu tondo che l'O di Giotto_, or,”

  A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture

• “Patty's interest in Giotto and his kind was not very keen, and she sauntered off on a tour of inspection.”

  Just Patty

• “He, having had this son, to whom he gave the name Giotto, reared him conformably to his condition; and when he had come to the age of ten, he showed in all his actions, although childish still, a vivacity and readiness of intelligence much out of the ordinary, which rendered him dear not only to his father but to all those also who knew him, both in the village and beyond.”

  Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 01 (of 10), Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi

• “The farmer even has a halo formed by his tipped back sombrero, and the holiness of this revolutionary embrace is reinforced by its association with the embrace of Joachim and Anna in Giotto’s Arena Chapel in Padua.”

  Jose Clemente Orozco and Diego Rivera - The Murals

• “The interior of the church -- often called Giotto's Chapel -- is somewhat cold and bare at first sight; but the beauty of the paintings, which are in a very fair state of preservation, considering their age, speedily dispels this idea.”

  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta

• “He called Giotto to Rome and gave him constant occupation.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

• “Nobody would have understood me if I had called Giotto, 'Ambrose Bondone;' or Tintoret, Robusti; or even Raphael,”

  Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving

• “It is not so notable as exhibiting the mind of Giotto, which is perhaps more fully seen in subjects representing varied emotion, as in the simplicity and repose which were peculiar to the compositions of the early fourteenth century.”

  Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel

• “To-day, if you walk through Florence, the City of Flowers, you will still see its fairest flower of all, the tall white campanile or bell-tower, 'Giotto's tower' as it is called.”

  Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters

• “Giotto", says Vasari, "was the first to put more kindness into his figures".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip

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