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Such images were of higher resolution than the only previous pictures, of Halley's Comet taken by the Giotto spacecraft.
** The Giotto spacecraft flies past Comet 26P / Grigg-Skjellerup, gathering measurements about the comet.
* Halley's nucleus by Giotto spacecraft ( ESA link )
* Image of Halley in 1986 by Giotto spacecraft ( NASA link )
Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet.
The spacecraft was named after the Early Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone.
* Giotto was the first spacecraft to provide detailed pictures of a cometary nucleus.
* Giotto was the first spacecraft do a close flyby of two comets.
* Giotto was the first spacecraft to return from interplanetary space and perform an Earth swing by.
* Giotto was the first spacecraft to be re-activated from hibernation mode.
* Image of Halley in 1986 by Giotto spacecraft
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The European Space Agency used IDL to process almost all of the pictures of Halley's Comet taken by the Giotto spacecraft.
* Giotto ( spacecraft ), approached Halley's Comet in March 1986 ( made at Filton )
It was to be the first time a spacecraft would have flown in formation with a comet, though a U. S. spacecraft, International Cometary Explorer ( ICE ), flew by Comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1985, spacecraft from several countries encountered Comet Halley in 1986, and the Giotto spacecraft flew past Comet Grigg-Skjellerup in 1992.
He also participated in the planning of Giotto, the European Space Agency's mission to Halley's Comet, but died before the spacecraft was launched.
ICE transited between the Sun and Comet Halley in late March 1986, when other spacecraft ( Giotto, Vega 1 and 2, Suisei and Sakigake ) were in the vicinity of Comet Halley on their early March comet rendezvous missions ( see Halley Armada ).
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File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 36-- Lamentation ( The Mourning of Christ ). jpg | Lamentation by Giotto di Bondone
Pope Honorius III by Giotto di Bondone | Giotto.
Image: Paul Harvey, Ford Anglia with Tent and Giotto Tree. jpg | Paul Harvey.
File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 17-- Nativity, Birth of Jesus. jpg | Giotto ( 1267-1337 )
Francis of Assisi | St. Francis ' vision of a seraph ( fresco attributed to Giotto )
Giotto, Lamentation ( The Mourning of Christ ) | Lamentation, Cappella degli Scrovegni.
File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 18-- Adoration of the Magi. jpg | Adoration of the Magi Giotto
Pope Boniface VIII, by Giotto di Bondone | Giotto
This painting of Dante Alighieri, painted by Giotto di Bondone | Giotto, is in the chapel of the Bargello palace in Florence.
Cleansing of the Temple | Casting out the money changers by Giotto, 14th century
Marriage at Cana by Giotto di Bondone | Giotto, 14th century
File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 49-- Infidelity. jpg | Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Infidelity
File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 17-- Nativity, Birth of Jesus. jpg | Giotto ( 1267-1337 )
File: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 08-- Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. jpg | Giotto 14th century.
Image: Giotto-Scrovegni-- 36-- Lamentation ( The Mourning of Christ ). jpg | Giotto, The Lamentation ( c. 1305 ), Scrovegni Chapel
File: Léon Bonnat-Giotto gardant les chèvres. JPG | Giotto gardant les chèvres ( 1850 ) Musée Bonnat
File: Giotto di Bondone 001. jpg | Giotto di Bondone, Christ on the Cross Between Mary and John, c. 1300
Giotto di Bondone Visitation ( Christianity ) | Visitation, circa 1305
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* 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.
In the book Vasari was attempting to define what he described as a break with the barbarities of gothic art: the arts had fallen into decay with the collapse of the Roman Empire and only the Tuscan artists, beginning with Cimabue ( 1240 – 1301 ) and Giotto ( 1267 – 1337 ) began to reverse this decline in the arts.
The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt ( 1818 – 1897 ) in his Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien ( 1860 ), by contrast, defined the Renaissance as the period between Giotto and Michelangelo in Italy, that is, the 14th to mid-16th centuries.
* Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter ( c. 1267 – 1337 )
* January 8 – Giotto di Bondone, Italian Painter ( b. 1267 )
* 1986 – The Giotto probe provides the first ever close up images of Halley's Comet.
* Giotto – 2 July 1985 – Comet Halley flyby
Andrea del Castagno ( or Andrea di Bartolo di Bargilla ) ( c. 1421 – 19 August 1457 ) was an Italian painter from Florence, influenced chiefly by Tommaso Masaccio and Giotto di Bondone.
* Giotto di Bondone ( 1267 – 1337 )
* Ferrero Giotto – a chocolate cream centre, within a wafer sphere coated with hazelnut pieces.
* Giotto di Bondone ( Italian, 1267 – 1337 ) First Renaissance fresco painter
* Simone Martini ( Italian, 1285 – 1344 ) Gothic painter, Sienese school, pupil of Giotto and Duccio
* Pietro Lorenzetti ( Italian, fl1320 – 1345 ) Sienese school, influenced by Giotto
Adoration of the Magi by Florentine painter Giotto di Bondone ( 1267 – 1337 ).
Kiss of Judas ( 1304 – 06 ), fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy
* Giuliano Pisani, L ’ iconologia di Cristo Giudice nella Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto, in « Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova », XCV, 2006, pp. 45 – 65.
* Giuliano Pisani, Le allegorie della sovrapporta laterale d ’ accesso alla Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto, in « Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova », XCV, 2006, pp. 67 – 77.
* Giuliano Pisani, Il miracolo della Cappella degli Scrovegni di Giotto, in Modernitas – Festival della modernità ( Milano 22-25 giugno 2006 ), Spirali, Milano 2006, pp. 329 – 57.
* Giuliano Pisani, Il programma della Cappella degli Scrovegni, in Giotto e il Trecento, catalogo a cura di A. Tomei, Skira, Milano 2009, I – I saggi, pp. 113 – 127.
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