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Simone Martini
Title: Simone Martini
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Simone Martini
Simone Martini
Simone Martini was an Italian painter and a master of the Sienese school. He was active during the 13th and the 14th centuries and is thought of to be a pupil of Duccio. It is known he died August 4, 1344 in Avignon. “If we are to believe Vasari, who tells us that on Simone's tomb there was an epitaph stating that he had died at the age of sixty, then the artist must have been born around 1284” (Kren). He lived most of his life …showed first 85 words of 791 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 791 total…jewel-like colours, stamped gold and a linear elegance, all of which mark the art of the most brilliant representative of Gothic painting in Italy” (Louvre).
In Simone’s final years his style captured the naturalistic and French Gothic mannerism. As Hartt notes, Simone’s late style helped develop a “new naturalism” and transformed the stylistic methods of painters in Northern Europe.
Hartt, Fredrick. History of Italian Renaissance Art,
Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Fourth Edition. Prentice Hall and Abrams Publishers, 1994.
Kren, Emil. Web Gallery Art.
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Lourve Museum
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