Jacopo del Casentino (c. 1297 – 1358) was an Italian painter, active mainly in
Tuscany
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in the first half of the 14th century.
Life
Very little is known about this artist other than that he likely came from
Casentino.
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...
incorrectly identified him as a member of the
Landini Landini may refer to
* Landini (surname)
**Francesco Landini
*Landini (tractor) produced by the Italian company Landini SpA
*Landini cadence, a technique in music composition named after composer Francesco Landini
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family and that is the reason why in the past he was referred to as Jacopo Landino. Vasari also incorrectly placed his origins in
Arezzo.
It is likely he received his training in Florence in the milieu of the
Master of St Cecilia
The Master of St Cecilia is the notname given to an Italian painter active circa 1290 to 1320 in Florence and its environs.Hans M. Schmidt, et al. "Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Pre ...
. His career appears to have been confined to the first half of the 14th century. He was one of the founders of the ''Compagnia di S Luca'' (Company of Painters), which was under the patronage of the Virgin and Saints
John the Baptist
John the Baptist or , , or , ;Wetterau, Bruce. ''World history''. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1994. syc, ܝܘܿܚܲܢܵܢ ܡܲܥܡܕ݂ܵܢܵܐ, Yoḥanān Maʿmḏānā; he, יוחנן המטביל, Yohanān HaMatbil; la, Ioannes Bapti ...
,
Saint Zenobius
Saint Zenobius ( it, San Zanobi, Zenobio) (337–417) is venerated as the first bishop of Florence. His feast day is celebrated on May 25.
Life
Born of a Florentine noble family, Zenobius was educated by his pagan parents. He came under the ...
,
Saint Reparata, and
Saint Luke
Luke the Evangelist (Latin: '' Lucas''; grc, Λουκᾶς, '' Loukâs''; he, לוקאס, ''Lūqās''; arc, /ܠܘܩܐ לוקא, ''Lūqā’; Ge'ez: ሉቃስ'') is one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of t ...
and was elected in 1339 its first ''consigliere''.
[Andrew Ladis. "Jacopo del Casentino." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 15 June 2016]
Work
Casentino specialized in small devotional altars commissioned for private worship. Casentino popularized these altars throughout Italy along with artists such as
Bernardo Daddi (1280 – 1348) . His work shows the influence 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. G ...
(1267 – 1337), with whom Daddi apprenticed. Casentino may have spent time in Giotto's workshop and have been a pupil of another Giotto follower,
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italy, Italian Painting, 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 d ...
(1300 – 1366).
Casentino also showed an influence from the
Sienese School of painting. The later Gothic style Casentino painted in was also influenced by the Sienese painters
Pietro Lorenzetti
Pietro Lorenzetti (; – 1348) or Pietro Laurati was an Italian painter, active between c. 1306 and 1345. Together with his younger brother Ambrogio, he introduced naturalism into Sienese art. In their artistry and experiments with three-dimen ...
(1280 – 1348) and his brother
Ambrogio (1290 – 1348).
[Jacopo del Casentino]
at the Uffizi Museum
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1330 births
1380 deaths
14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Trecento painters
Painters from Tuscany
Gothic painters
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