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According to the tradition, Giotto was born in Vicchio, in the Mugello, in a family of farmers that moved to Florence when he was a child. His parents gave him in custody to Cimabue , the famous painter. According to another version, Cimabue noticed the young Giotto while he was drawing a sheep on a rock, because he worked as a shepherd in the country near Vicchio.

Another story talks again about Cimabue: while he was away, his pupil has drawn a lifelike fly on the painting he was working on and he tried to brush it off, because it seemed real. Because of this fact he understood that his pupil had outdid him: it was time for Giotto to open his own workshop! If this apprenticeship was true, Giotto could had follow Cimabue in Rome: here maybe he knew Arnolfo di Cambio , that made him work in Assisi.

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For example, it is said that he was a very ugly man : probably this rumor is due to his origin. Deformities were very common in the countryside. Even if he was a great artist in town, people remembered his origin. We know some documents that describe a man very smart, that interpreted the new social class from the artistic point of view: the bourgeoisie.

The concreteness of his art was very appreciated and he worked in some important Italian towns as Florence, Assisi, Rome, Bologna, Padua, Rimini….