Inset into the tall wall of the lower piazza is the bas reliefs of three prominent Italian cultural figures: Giotto (di Bondone) 1266-1337 Painter and architect. First great artist contributing to Renaissance. Michangelo (di Lodovico Buonarroit Simoni) 1475-1564 Archetypal Renaissance figure, with De Vinci, noted for architecture, engineering, painting, poetry, and sculpting. Francisco Petraca 1304-1374 Earliest of Renaissance Humanists, poet and scholar.