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Simone Martini

Paintings

Allegoria Virgiliana

Altarpiece of Boston

Altarpiece of Cambridge

Altarpiece of Cambridge, Detail

Altarpiece of Cambridge, Detail

Altarretabel von Orvieto

Altarpiece of Orvieto, Detail

Altarpiece of Orvieto, Detail

Altarpiece of Pisa : Madonna
Altarpiece of Pisa : St. Mary Magdalene
Altarpiece of Pisa : Sts . Ursula and Laurenzius
Altarpiece of Pisa : Sts . Agnes and Ambrose
Coronation of Robert of Anjou, predella
Coronation of Robert of Anjou, predella , detail
The general Riccio da Fogliano Guiddo
The general Riccio da Fogliano Guiddo , detail
The general Riccio da Fogliano Guiddo , detail
The general Riccio da Fogliano Guiddo , detail
The general Riccio da Fogliano Guiddo , detail
The Holy Family
Avignon : Christ Pantocrator with Angels
Avignon : Christ Pantocrator with Angels , detail
Avignon : Madonna with Angels
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints, detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints, detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints
Frescoes in Assisi : Saints, detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Investiture of St. Martin
Frescoes in Assisi : Investiture of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Investiture of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Investiture of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Investiture of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Manteilteilung of St. Martin
Frescoes in Assisi : Dream of St. Martin
Frescoes in Assisi : Dream of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Battle with the crucifix
Frescoes in Assisi : Battle with the crucifix , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Battle with the crucifix , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Battle with the crucifix , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Battle with the crucifix , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Awakening wonder Detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Awakening wonder Detail
Frescoes in Assisi : The Mass of St. Martin
Frescoes in Assisi : The Mass of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : The meditating Holy
Frescoes in Assisi : The meditating Saints, detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Death of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Funeral of St. Martin
Frescoes in Assisi : Funeral of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Funeral of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : Funeral of St. Martin , detail
Frescoes in Assisi : dedication of the chapel
Entombment of Christ
St John the Evangelist
Crucifix, Christ with Mary and John
Palazzo Pubblico in Siena: Maestà
Palazzo Pubblico in Siena: Maestà , detail
Palazzo Pubblico in Siena: Maestà , detail
Palazzo Pubblico in Siena: Maestà , detail
Maria with the child, fragment
Orsini- altar scene: the Cross
Orsini- altar scene: crucifixion
Orsini- altar scene: the Cross
Orsini- altar scene: Annunciation angel
Orsini- altar scene: Mary of the Annunciation
Blessing Christ
Triptych of the Blessed St. Augustine Novellus , detail
Triptych of the Blessed St. Augustine Novellus , detail
Triptych of the Blessed St. Augustine Novellus
Triptych of the Blessed St. Augustine Novellus , detail
Triptych of the Blessed St. Augustine Novellus , detail
Annunciation triptych
Annunciation triptych
Annunciation triptych, detail
Annunciation triptych, detail
Annunciation triptych, detail

Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) 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. Giorgio Vasari stated Simone was a pupil of Giotto di Bondone the most famous painter from Florence with whom he went to Rome to paint at old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Simones brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very little documentation survives regarding Simone's life, and many attributions are debated by art historians. Simone Simone Martini died while in the service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344.

Simone was doubtlessly apprenticed from an early age, as would have been the normal practice. Among his first documented works is the Maestà of 1315 in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. A copy of the work, executed shortly thereafter by Lippo Memmi in San Gimignano, testifies to the enduring influence Simone's prototypes would have on other artists throughout the fourteenth century. Perpetuating the Sienese tradition, Simone's style contrasted with the sobriety and monumentality of Florentine art, and is noted for its soft, stylized, decorative features, sinuosity of line, and unsurpassed courtly elegance. Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome.

Simone's major works include the Maestà (1315) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, St Louis of Toulouse Crowning the King at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples (1317), the S. Caterina Polyptych in Pisa (1319) and the Annunciation and two Saints at the Uffizi in Florence (1333), as well as frescoes in the Chapel of St. Martin in the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. Francis Petrarch became a friend of Simone's while in Avignon, and two of Petrarch's sonnets make reference to a portrait of Laura de Noves Simone supposedly painted for the poet (G.Vasari).

Christ Discovered in the Temple (1342) is in the collections of Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery.[1]

Sources

* Vasari, Giorgio; translation by George Bull (1965). Lives of the Artists. Penguin Classics.

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