the ledger of connections
The Connections of Giotto
Italian painter and architect (c. 1267–1337) Every person recorded alongside Giotto in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Giotto in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Bondone
- Teachers
- Cimabue
- Students
- Simone Martini, Taddeo Gaddi, Bernardo Daddi, Puccio Capanna, Ottaviano da Faenza, Pace di Bartolo, Guglielmo da Forli, Pietro Lorenzetti, Stefano Fiorentino, Pietro Cavallini
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1267 to 1337.

Medieval era
Rumi
September 30, 1207 – December 17, 1273
Persian poet and Sufi mystic, among the best-selling poets in the world today

Medieval era
Thomas Aquinas
January 25, 1225 – March 7, 1274
Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
Medieval era
Charles Martel
April 13, 1327 – April 21, 1327
Duke of Calabria, born April 1327

Medieval era
Kublai Khan
1215 – 1294
Founding emperor of the Yuan dynasty, grandson of Genghis Khan (1215–1294)

Medieval era
Timur
April 9, 1336 – February 19, 1405
The founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405)

Medieval era
Mansa Musa
1280 – 1337
14th-century emperor (mansa) of the Mali Empire

Medieval era
Osman I
August 23, 1258 – August 1, 1326
Founder of the Ottoman Empire (died 1323/4)

Medieval era
Robert the Bruce
July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329
King of Scotland (1306–1329)

Medieval era
Edward I of England
June 17, 1239 – July 7, 1307
King of England from 1272 to 1307

Medieval era
Hongwu Emperor
October 29, 1328 – June 24, 1398
Founding emperor of China's Ming dynasty; ruled 1368–1398

Medieval era
Hafez
1326 – 1389
Persian poet and mystic (1325–1389)

Medieval era
Ibn Khaldun
May 27, 1332 – March 17, 1406
Historiographer and historian