Gennaro di Cola (c. 1320 – c. 1370) was an Italian painter of the
Trecento
The Trecento (, also , ; short for , "1300") refers to the 14th century in Italian cultural history.
Period Art
Commonly, the Trecento is considered to be the beginning of the Renaissance in art history. Painters of the Trecento included Giotto ...
, active mainly in
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
.
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
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 ...
. 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
San Giovanni a Carbonara
San Giovanni a Carbonara is a Gothic church in Naples, Southern Italy. It is located at the northern end of via Carbonara, just outside what used to be the eastern wall of the old city. The name ''carbonara'' (meaning "coal-carrier") was given to ...
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
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