Gennaro di Cola (c. 1320 – c. 1370) was an Italian painter of the

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, active mainly in

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. He trained with

Simone Martini Simone Martini ( – 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 ...

, and reportedly befriended

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. He worked in fresco alongside his pupil

Stefanone Stefanone (active c. 1350 – c. 1390) was an Italian painter of the Trecento, active in Naples. Biography We have few details of Stefanone but for what is said of him by Bernardo de' Dominici in his biography of Neapolitan painters. He is be ...

. His frescoes of the testament scenes in the church of

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have been lost. In Santa Maria della Pietà, he painted the ''Mater Dolorosa with dead body of Christ''.

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* 1320 births 1370 deaths 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Trecento painters Painters from Naples {{Italy-painter-14thC-stub