Who Was Alive

Giotto

Italian painter and architect

Born 1266–1276 · died 8 January 1337

Who was alive at the same time as Giotto?

  1. Albertus Magnus
  2. Saadi
  3. Kublai Khan
  4. Roger Bacon
  5. Marco Polo
  6. Osman I
  7. Dante Alighieri
  8. Giotto
  9. William of Ockham
  10. Ibn Battuta
  11. Petrarch
  12. Giovanni Boccaccio
  13. Hafez
  14. Ibn Khaldun
  15. Timur
Drag across the timeline to see who was alive in any year and the age each person reached that year. Faded ends mark uncertain dates.

When Giotto died, Ibn Battuta was 32, Ibn Khaldun was 4 or 5, Petrarch was 32, Timur was under a year old and Giovanni Boccaccio was 23 or 24.

Born during Giotto’s lifetime: Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, Hafez, Petrarch, Timur, Giovanni Boccaccio and William of Ockham.

Not quite contemporaries: Geoffrey Chaucer was born 4 years after Giotto died.

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