Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1300-1366
Italian painter active in Florence. He was the son of a painter and mosaicist and a student of Giotto. His best-known works are frescoes in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. He directed a flourishing workshop for three decades, producing pictures in the style of Giotto but featuring more vivid picturesque effects with narrative detail. His son and pupil Agnolo (c. 1350 C 96) was an influential and prolific artist who likewise produced a notable series of frescoes for Santa Croce, The Legend of the True Cross Related Paintings of GADDI, Taddeo :. | Life of the Virgin (detail) dwry | General view of the Baroncelli Chapel sg | Life of the Virgin (detail) dfhh | Life of the Virgin sg | Stigmatization of St Francis s | Related Artists: Tito Lessi Italian artist, 1858-1917 Cesare Mussini painted Atala in 1835 Enguerrand Quarton active in Provence 1444-1466