Giovanni da Milano (Giovanni di Jacopo di Guido da Caversaccio) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

, known to be active in Florence and Rome between 1346 and 1369. His style is, like many Florentine painters of the time, considered to be derivative of

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 ...

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misidentified him as a student of

Taddeo Gaddi Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian painter and architect. He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi. He was a member of Giotto's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. A ...

, a noted Giotto protég�

Hailing from

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, the earliest documentation shows Giovanni in Florence on October 17, 1346, under the name Johannes Jacobi de Commo, listed amongst the foreign painters living in Tuscan

Amongst Giovanni's most significant works: * A polyptych with Madonna and Saints (c. 1355), the oldest known signed work by Giovanni da Milano, painted for the

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Spedale della Misericordia * A polyptych made for the Ognissanti of Florence (c. 1363), now dismembered and scattered, depicting saints and scenes of the

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* ''Man of Sorrows'' panel (c. 1365, Accademia,

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

), the oldest known signed and dated work * Frescoes decorating both sides of the Rinuccini Chapel in Santa Croce,

. Each side consists of five scenes – one side depicting the Life of the

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and the other the Life of

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. Giovanni is credited with the upper two registers of each cycle. The bottom register is credited to Matteo di Pacinobr>
The latest extent documentation of Giovanni's career comes in 1369, when he is known to be working in Rome for

Pope Urban V Pope Urban V ( la, Urbanus V; 1310 – 19 December 1370), born Guillaume de Grimoard, was the head of the Catholic Church from 28 September 1362 until his death in December 1370 and was also a member of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was the on ...

with

Giottino Giottino ( fl. 1324 – 1369), also known as Tommaso Fiorentino, was an early Italian painter from Florence. His real name was Maso di Stefano or Tommaso di Stefano. Giottino's father, Maestro Stefano Fiorentino, "Stefano the Florentine", w ...

and the sons of Taddeo Gaddi.

References

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External links

Giovanni da Milano at Panopticon Virtual Art Gallery''Italian Paintings: Florentine School''
a collection catalog containing information about da Milano and his works (see pages: 33-34). {{DEFAULTSORT:Giovanni da Milano Painters from Milan Trecento painters 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Gothic painters Year of death missing Year of birth missing