Simone Martini
Painting, Visual Artist
1284 – 1344
Who was Simone Martini?
Simone Martini was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style.
It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini's brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very little documentation of Simone's life survives, and many attributions are debated by art historians.
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- Born
- 1284
Siena - Also known as
- Maestro Simone
- Nationality
- Italy
- Lived in
- Siena
- Died
- 1344
Avignon
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on July 23, 2013
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