Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll.
- Anna Brownell Jameson
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Memoirs of the early Italian painters / by Anna Jameson; thoroughly revised and in part rewritten by Estelle M. Hurll. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Gaddo Gaddi Gaddi, the mosaic-worker [1239-1312], remarkable for being the first of a family illustrious in several departments of art and literature. It must be remembered that the mosaic- workers of those times prepared and colored their own designs, and may therefore take rank with the painters.1 Further, there remain pictures by painters of the Siena school which date before the death of Cimabue, and particu- larly a picture by a certain Maestro Mino,2 dated 1289, which is spoken of as wonderful for the invention and greatness of style. [Virgin and Saints in Palazzo Pubblico at Siena.] Another Sienese painter was Duccio, who painted from 1282 (twenty years before the death of Cimabue) to about [1320], and “whose influence on the progress of Art was un- questionably great. To this painter was allotted, in the year 1308, the task of painting the great altar-piece for the beautiful 1 [Another early mosaic-worker was Andrea Tati, who was living in 1-320 and was consequently a contemporary of Giotto. There is considerable doubt as to the work properly to be attributed to him.] - [ Vide Crowe and Cavalcaselle, History of Pointing in Italy, vol. i. p. 185.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24877888_0047.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
