Giotto
Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), known as Giotto was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Renaissance.
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Dante Alighieri Portraits
Dante Alighieri Portraits (Giotto) - Detail from a fresco in the Podestà Chapel in the Palazzo del Bargello by Giotto, who was considered by Dante to have revolutionized the art of painting in the 14th century: "In painting Cimabue thought he held the field, and now it's Giotto they acclaim – the former only keeps a shadowed fame."(Purgatory XI, 94-96) - Chapter 18