Deodato Orlandi (active 1284–1315, died before 1331) was an Italian painter who was active in

Lucca Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957. Lucca is known as one o ...

and

Pisa Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...

. His work marks the transition from the Italo-Byzantine painting of the 13th century to the

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto ( , ) and Latinised as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the Gothic/Proto-Renaissance period. Giot ...

-inspired style of the 14th century.

Life

Orlandi was active in

and

between 1284 and 1315. He primarily painted religious-themed works on commissions for churches. Some of his works show a

Byzantine art Byzantine art comprises the body of Christian Greek artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of Rome and lasted ...

style, and an influence of

can also be seen. He painted frescos for the

San Piero a Grado San Piero a Grado (Italian: ''Basilica di San Pietro Apostolo'') is a church in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, in the eponymous ''frazione'' west of the city center. The church is located where once was a now disappeared port of the Pisan Republic, wher ...

church which was commissioned by the

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family for the 1300

jubilee A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of y ...

. In the lower part are ''Portraits of Popes'', from St. Peter to

John XVIII Pope John XVIII ( la, Ioannes XVIII; died June or July 1009) was the bishop of Rome and nominal ruler of the Papal States from January 1004 (25 December 1003 NS) to his abdication in July 1009. He wielded little temporal power, ruling during th ...

(1303); the intermediate portion has thirty panels with ''Histories of St. Peter's Life'' (as well of those of St. Paul, Constantine and St. Sylvester), similar to those in the

Old St. Peter's Basilica Old St. Peter's Basilica was the building that stood, from the 4th to 16th centuries, where the new St. Peter's Basilica stands today in Vatican City. Construction of the basilica, built over the historical site of the Circus of Nero, began durin ...

and to

Cimabue Cimabue (; ; – 1302), Translated with an introduction and notes by J.C. and P Bondanella. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford World’s Classics), 1991, pp. 7–14. . also known as Cenni di Pepo or Cenni di Pepi, was an Italian painter a ...

's work at San Francesco in

Assisi Assisi (, also , ; from la, Asisium) is a town and ''comune'' of Italy in the Province of Perugia in the Umbria region, on the western flank of Monte Subasio. It is generally regarded as the birthplace of the Latin poet Propertius, born aroun ...

. In the upper area are portrayed the ''Walls of the Heaven City'', largely restored in the following centuries.

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