Such images were of higher resolution than the only previous pictures, of Halley's Comet taken by the Giotto spacecraft.

The Giotto and Vega missions gave planetary scientists their first view of Halley's surface and structure.

* Halley's nucleus by Giotto spacecraft ( ESA link )

* 1986 – The Giotto probe provides the first ever close up images of Halley's Comet.

Giotto was a European robotic spacecraft mission from the European Space Agency, intended to fly by and study Halley's Comet.

* Giotto di Bondone's ' Adoration of the Magi ' painting that includes his rendition of Halley's Comet

It became a part of the Halley Armada together with Suisei, the Soviet / French Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner solar system.

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 )

Giotto witnessed an appearance of Halley's Comet in 1301.

It constituted a part of the Halley Armada together with Sakigake, the Soviet / French Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley's Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner solar system.

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.

On 14 March, the Giotto space probe, launched by the European Space Agency, made the closest pass of the comet's nucleus.

The idea was for Japanese probes and the pre-existing American probe International Cometary Explorer to make long distance measurements, followed by the Russian Vegas which would locate the nucleus, and the resulting information sent back would allow Giotto to precisely target very close to the nucleus.

Because Giotto would pass so very close to the nucleus ESA was mostly convinced it would not survive the encounter due to bombardment from the many high speed cometary particles.

* Giotto was the first spacecraft to provide detailed pictures of a cometary nucleus.

* Giotto, the first space probe to get close-up color images of the nucleus of a comet.

The most ambitious is the European Space Agency's Giotto, which flies through the comet's coma and photographs the nucleus.

* Boniface was a patron of 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 tower was designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.

The pigment was mixed with a binding medium like egg and applied over dry plaster ( such as Giotto di Bondone's frescos in the Cappella degli Scrovegni or Arena Chapel in Padua ).

Giotto showed that this model was broadly correct, though with modifications.

The presence of the university attracted many distinguished artists, such as Giotto, Fra Filippo Lippi and Donatello ; and for native art there was the school of Francesco Squarcione, whence issued the great Mantegna.

The spacecraft was named after the Early Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone.

Originally a United States partner probe was planned that would accompany Giotto, but this fell through due to budget cuts at NASA.

While in GTO a number of slew and spin-up manoeuvres ( to 90 RPM ) were carried out in preparation for the firing of the Apogee Boost Motor ( ABM ), although unlike orbit circularisations for geostationary orbit, the ABM for Giotto was fired at perigee.

Giotto was commanded to wake up on 2 July 1990 when it flew by Earth in order to sling shot to its next cometary encounter.

Afterwards, Giotto was again switched off on 23 July 1992.

In 1999 Giotto made another Earth flyby but was not reactivated.

) Although the one particle impact that sent Giotto spinning was not measured, from its effects-it also probably broke off a piece of Giotto-its mass has been estimated to lie between 0. 1 g and 1 g.

* 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.

In fact, Giotto inspired the 14th-century School of Rimini, which was the expression of original cultural ferment.

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.

According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there.

Of course, the Western iconographic style is less static and stylized than that of the East, and other very different representations have been produced, and in some cases have achieved great fame, such as the Pentecosts by Titian, Giotto and el Greco.

He made his chief works in Florence, and the formation of his mature style was due rather to Giotto di Bondone than to his earlier master.

One of the first uses of perspective was in Giotto ’ s Jesus Before the Caïf, more than 100 years before Brunelleschi ’ s perspectival demonstrations galvanized the widespread use of convergent perspective of the Renaissance proper.

The English period began far later than the Italian, which is usually considered to begin with Dante, Petrarch and Giotto in the early 14th century, and was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.