[ noun ] Florentine painter who gave up the stiff Byzantine style and developed a more naturalistic style; considered the greatest Italian painter prior to the Renaissance (1267-1337) <noun.person>
The same could be said of him. Massive, simplified forms, even when in low relief, suggest the volume and rotundity of figures by Giotto and Masaccio.
It may suddenly seize them in front of a Botticelli in the Uffizi or Giotto's frescos in Santa Croce, or as they strain to see Brunelleschi's lofty dome in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.