GIOTTINO or GIOTTO DI MAESTRO DI STEFANO, an early Florentine painter, whose name occurs in 1368 in the records of the guild. In 1369 he was -called to Rome to assist in paintings in the Vatican. His father is sometimes identified with a pupil of Giotto, who attained some fame. To Giottino's early period are ascribed the frescoes in the lower church of Assisi rep resenting the "Coronation of the Virgin" and two scenes of the legend of St. Nicholas. They differ somewhat in style from his later work—the frescoes in the chapel of the Bardi family in S. Croce in Florence representing the miracles of Pope S. Silvestro. These works are animated and firm in drawing, luminous in colour, with naturalism carried further than by Giotto. They are among the most important paintings of Giotto's school. From the evi dence of style the fine Pieta from San Remigio, now in the Uffizi at Florence, has been ascribed to Giottino. Some confusion has arisen because Vasari identified Giottino with the painter Maso, who was active between 1320 and 135o, and to whom Ghiberti ascribed the frescoes of the S. Silvestro legend. The Giottino problem has been the subject of recent art critical research.