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Giotto

1267 — 1337 · High Medieval

The Life and Origins of Giotto di Bondone Giotto di Bondone emerged from the rolling hills near Florence, Italy, around 1267. He was a painter and architect who spent his life working through the transition from the medieval period toward the Renaissance. While his full …

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Giotto
The Palette Genome

A portrait built from Giotto's own colours

Every 100 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
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The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers