Agnolo Gaddi

Agnolo Gaddi (c.13501396) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Florence, and was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi.

Angnolo Gaddi
Agnolo Gaddi
Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels, by Agnolo Gaddi (1380/90)
Born
Agnolo di Taddeo Gaddi

c.1350
Florence, Italy
DiedOctober 10, 1396
Florence, Italy
OccupationPainter
Years active1369–1396
RelativesTaddeo Gaddi (Father)

Taddeo Gaddi was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto. Agnolo was an influential and prolific artist who was the last major Florentine painter stylistically descended from Giotto. Among his pupils was the author of an art treatise, Cennino Cennini.[1]

Paintings

Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Agnolo Gaddi in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Gaddi's work includes frescoes in the choir of Santa Croce in Florence as well as:

References

  1. Cennini, Cennino (1821). Giuseppe Tambroni (ed.). Trattato della Pittura (15th-century original). Rome: Torchi di Paolo Salviucci. pp. iv.
  2. http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/art-object-page.344.html
  3. "The Crucifixion". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
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