Giotto

==Later works and death==
[[File:Dante-alighieri.jpg|thumb|upright|alt=Giotto's portrait of Dante Alighieri left-facing profile with red cape and cap|Engraving after a portrait of [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] by Giotto]]
In 1328, the altarpiece of the [[Baroncelli Chapel]], [[Santa Croce, Florence]], was completed. Previously ascribed to Giotto, it is now believed to be mostly a work by assistants, including [[Taddeo Gaddi]], who later frescoed the chapel.<ref>Giotto, Andrew Martindale, and Edi Baccheschi (1966). ''The Complete Paintings of Giotto''. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 118. {{OCLC|963830818}}.</ref> The next year, Giotto was called by King [[Robert of Anjou]] to [[Naples]] where he remained with a group of pupils until 1333. Few of Giotto's Neapolitan works have survived: a fragment of a fresco portraying the ''Lamentation of Christ'' in the church of [[Santa Chiara, Naples|Santa Chiara]] and the ''Illustrious Men'' that is painted on the windows of the Santa Barbara Chapel of [[Castel Nuovo]], which are usually attributed to his pupils. In 1332, King Robert named him "first court painter", with a yearly pension. Also in this time period, according to Vasari, Giotto composed a series on the Bible; scenes from the [[Book of Revelation]] were based on ideas by Dante.{{sfn|Eimerl|1967|p=158}}

After Naples, Giotto stayed for a while in [[Bologna]], where he painted a Polyptych for the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli and, according to some sources, a lost decoration for the Chapel in the Cardinal Legate's Castle.<ref name="Vasari"/>
In 1334, Giotto was appointed chief architect to [[Florence Cathedral]]. He designed the bell tower, known as [[Giotto's Bell Tower|Giotto's Campanile]], begun on July 18, 1334.  After Giotto's death three years later, [[Andrea Pisano]] and finally [[Francesco Talenti]] took over the tower's construction, completed in 1359 and not entirely to Giotto's design.<ref name=Sarel/>
Before 1337, he was in [[Milan]] with [[Azzone Visconti]], but no trace of works by him remains in the city. His last known work was with assistants' help: the decoration of Podestà Chapel in the [[Bargello]], Florence.<ref name=Sarel/>

Giotto appears in the writings of many contemporary authors, including Boccaccio, [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] and [[Franco Sacchetti]]. Sacchetti recounted the likely fictional incident in which a civilian commissioned Giotto to paint a shield with his [[coat of arms]]; Giotto instead painted the shield "armed to the teeth", complete with a sword, lance, dagger, and suit of armor. He told the man to "Go into the world a little, before you talk of arms as if you were the Duke of Bavaria", and in response was sued. Giotto countersued and won two florins.{{sfn|Eimerl|1967|p=135}} In ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'', [[Dante]] acknowledged the greatness of his living contemporary by the words of a painter in [[Purgatorio]] (XI, 94–96): "Cimabue believed that he held the field/In painting, and now Giotto has the cry,/ So the fame of the former is obscure."<ref name=Hartt/> Giotto died in January 1337.