Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in

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– 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian

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and

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. He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called

Gaddo Gaddi Gaddo Gaddi (c. 1239, Florence – c. 1312, Florence) was a painter and mosaicist of Florence in a Gothic art style. Almost no works survive. He was the father of Taddeo Gaddi. He completed mosaics on the facade of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rom ...

. He was a member 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 ...

's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he was placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters. He also traded as a merchant, and had a branch establishment in

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. As well as a painter, he was a mosaicist and architect. His main work is the cycle of ''Stories of the Virgin'' in the

Baroncelli Chapel The Baroncelli Chapel is a chapel located at the end of the right transept in Santa Croce, Florence, church of Santa Croce, central Florence, Italy. It has frescoes by Taddeo Gaddi executed between 1328 and 1338. Description Gaddi artworks T ...

of the

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(1328–1338). Later he perhaps painted the cabinet tiles in the sacristy of the same church, now divided among the

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of Florence and museums in

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and

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. These works show his mastership of Giotto's new style, to which he added a personal experimentation in the architectural backgrounds, such as in the staircase of the ''Presentation of the Virgin'' in the Baroncelli Chapel. According to some scholars, he collaborated in the

Stefaneschi Polyptych The ''Stefaneschi Altarpiece'' is a triptych by the Italian painter Giotto (c. 1267 – 1337), commissioned by Cardinal Giacomo Gaetani Stefaneschi to serve as an altarpiece for one of the altars of Old St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. It is ...

in Rome. His other works include a '' Madonna'' in

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, an ''Adoration of the Magi'' in

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, the ''Stories of

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, Camposanto Monumentale), the ''Madonna Enthroned with Child, Angels and Saints'' (Florence,

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), ''The Stigmatization of Saint Francis'' (Cambridge, MA,

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), the ''Madonna del Parto'' (Florence), and the Polyptych in

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's sacristy, Florence. Barcelona's MNAC keeps as a permanent loan from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in

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a small tempera panel dated in 1325, a ''Nativity'' that was part of a larger table. Vasari credited him also of the design and reconstruction of the

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, which is however disputed by modern scholars. He was the father of

Agnolo Gaddi Agnolo Gaddi (c.1350–1396) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Florence, and was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi,who was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto. Agnolo was a painter and mosaicist, trained ...

and Giovanni Gaddi. Taddeo Gaddi, Stories of the Virgin, c1330, Baroncelli chapel, Santa Croce, Florence.jpg, ''Stories of the Virgin'' (north wall), c. 1330,

, Santa Croce, Florence Taddeo Gaddi, Visitation, c1330, Baroncelli chapel, Santa Croce, Florence.jpg, ''Visitation'', c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel Gaddi Taddeo Announcement.jpg, ''Annunciation to the Shepherds'', c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel Taddeo Gaddi, Adoration of the Magi, c1330, Baroncelli chapel, Santa Croce, Florence.jpg, ''Adoration of the Magi'', c1330, Baroncelli Chapel Taddeo Gaddi, Arbor vitae, c1330-40 or -60, Santa Croce Refectory, Florence.jpg, ''Arbor vitae'', c. 1330-40 or -60, Santa Croce Refectory

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''Italian Paintings: Florentine School''
a collection catalog containing information about Gaddi and his works (see pages: 22–25). * Gothic painters Trecento painters 1290s births 1366 deaths Painters from Florence Fresco painters Church frescos in Florence 14th-century people of the Republic of Florence 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters

Taddeo Taddeo is a masculine given name which may refer to: * Taddeo Alderotti (between 1206 and 1215-1295), Italian doctor and professor of medicine * Taddeo Altini O.S.A. (1609-1685), Roman Catholic Bishop of Civita Castellana e Orte, and Titular Bisho ...

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