Puccio di simone biography
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Biography
Italian painter, active in Florence around the middle of the fourteenth century. One of his early works, an Annunciation with two saints in the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, also betrays the influence of Giovanni da Milano. Puccio is first recorded as a painter in 1346 when his name was included in the records of the Arte dei Medici de Speziali, the guild of doctors, druggists and painters but he is known to have been active before then since his damaged frescoes in the Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella in Florence once bore the date of 1340. In the late 1340s he executed a polyptych (now dismembered) with the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the centre, and representations of saints on the side panels. Some of the extant panels stand out for their lavish use of the same decorative arabesque motif which is also present in several late works by Bernardo Daddi and his shop and it is likely that the two artists were collaborating regularly by the early 1340s
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Puccio di Simone
Italian Gothic painter
Puccio di Simone (fl. 1346–1358) was an Italian Gothic painter, active in Florence.
Biography
[edit]Puccio di Simone fryst vatten also known as the mästare of the Fabriano Altarpiece. He was a student of Bernardo Daddi in Florence. He fryst vatten mentioned between 1348 and 1357.[1] He appears to have collaborated with Allegretto Nuzi in Fabriano.[2]
Work
[edit]Work by Puccio di Simone can be found in:
- Coronation of the Virgin, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
- Madonna, Petit Palais, Avignon, France
- Madonna and Child, Montor Collection, Paris, France
- Madonna and Saints (polyptych), Museum of Sacred Art, Certaldo, Italy
- St Anthony altarpiece (1353), Pinacoteca of Fabriano, Italy[3]
- Triptych of Madonna with Saints Laurentius, Onuphrius, Jacobus and Barthomoleus, Accademia, Florence, Italy
- Saints Lucia and Catherine, Galleria di Palazzo degli Alberti, Prato, Italy
- St Ansano and two angels, C
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Biography
Italian painter. Vasari described him as one of Giotto's most important pupils, but he identified him with the painter Puccio di Simone who is documented in Florence, although he included among the works attributed to this artist numerous paintings in Assisi and noted that the inhabitants of Assisi considered him to be a fellow citizen. A document of 1341, however, confirms the existence of an Assisi painter named Puccio di Capanna: the authorities commissioned 'Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio' to paint images of the Virgin and Child with Saints on the 'Porta externa platee nove' and the 'Porta Sancti Ruphini'. Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347. He died in Assisi from the plague in 1348.
Along with the Florentine Maso di Banco, he was Giotto's main heir as well as the leading exponent of the manner that was the greatest innovation in Italian painting of the second quarter of the fourteenth century.