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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.
In this work, Gaddi showed his mastership of Giotto's style, with a narrative disposition of the characters in the scenes, which are more crowded than his master's. He also continued to experiment with the use of geometrical perspective in the architectural background, obtaining illusionistic effects in details such as the oblique staircase in ...
Taddeo Gaddi (1520–1561) was an Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and bishop. Gaddi was born in Florence on 22 January 1520, the son of Luigi Gaddi and Caterina Gomiel. [ 1 ] He was a direct descendant of painter Taddeo Gaddi , for whom he was named. [ 1 ]
This fresco by Taddeo Gaddi in the Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence was painted between 1332 and 1338. [17] Initially depicted only as part of a broader Nativity scene, the annunciation to the shepherds became an independent subject for art in the 9th century, [18] but has remained relatively uncommon as such, except in extended cycles with ...
Notable examples include works by Taddeo Gaddi, Bernardo Daddi and Nardo di Cione, but the fresco by Piero della Francesca in the Museum of Monterchi, in the province of Arezzo, is considered the most famous one. The Madonna was portrayed standing, alone, often with a closed book on her stomach, an allusion to the Incarnate Word.
Illustration of Gaddo Gaddi for The Lives, by Giorgio Vasari, 1568. 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 Rome.
He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic realism inaugurated by Giotto. [ 1 ] Maso's name and work are known to us from Lorenzo Ghiberti 's autobiographical I Commentari, which identifies frescoes in the chapel of the Holy Confessors at Santa Croce, Florence as ...
Initially artists, beginning with Gaddo Gaddi (c. 1239, Florence – c. 1312, Florence), Agnolo and Taddeo, the Gaddi family became wealthy as bankers, and then clerics. Pages in category "Gaddi family"