Puccio Capanna was an Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in

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between 1341 and 1347. He is also called ''Puccio Campana''. Capanna was originally a Florentine.

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described him as one of Giotto’s most important pupils, whom the inhabitants of Assisi considered to be a fellow citizen as he had done a lot of paintings in the churches there, e.g. at the lower church of the

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. He is said to have painted the Santa Maria Egiziaca (

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) in the church of San Francesco in

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See M. Farquhar. A document of 1341, confirms the existence of a painter in Assisi named Puccio di Capanna: the authorities commissioned ''Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio'' to paint images of the Virgin and Child with Saints on the ''Porta externa platee nove'' and the ''Porta Sancti Ruphini'' ( Cathedral of San Rufino) (see Abate). Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347, when he sold oxen to the Sacro Convento (Cenci, 1974). Many of the pieces of art, which he had done according to Fra Ludovico da Pietralunga (16th century) and

do not exist anymore. Some paintings of the ''Passion'' on the vaulting of the Lower Church at Assisi have been attributed to him. ''Scenes from the life of St. Francis and Christ'', painted in the chapterhouse of San Francesco in

, are attributed to him. He died at Assisi.

References

*C. Cenci. ''Documentazione di vita assisana 1300-1530''. (Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, X-XII), Grottaferrata 1974-1976, vol. I. (Italian lang.), p. 85. *''SAUR Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'' (Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker), Band 16 (Campagne-Cartellier), K.G.Saur, München, Leipzig, 1997. (German lang.), p. 225-227. *

External links

Fresco of the ''crucifixion'' 1330, North Carolina Museum of Art collectionShort biography at artnet.de. It refers to ''The Grove Dictionary of Art''
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