Documentation of Giotto is scanty: he was trained, according to a late tradition, by his most famous Florentine predecessor, Cimabue, whose reputation, as Dante notes in his “Purgtoriao,” was soon eclipsed by Giotto’s.

More fundamental influences on Giotto’s style may have been the works of Cavallini in Rome and the sculptures of Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.

Working in 1310 in his home town, Giotto executes a large wooden panel painting known as the “Ognissanti Madonna.”