Giovanni D'Asciano
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Giovanni d'Asciano, a pupil of Barna of Siena, is said to have completed the frescoes left unfinished by that master at
San Gimignano San Gimignano () is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of ...
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Asciano Asciano () is a ''comune'' and hill town in the province of Siena in the Italian region Tuscany. It is located at the centre of the Crete senesi between the river Ombrone and the torrent Copra, some southeast of the town of Siena by rail. Histo ...
, his birthplace, there is a work by Giovanni, similar in style to the works of Barna. This painter flourished about 1380.


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* Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Asciano 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Trecento painters Painters from Siena {{Italy-painter-stub