Simone Martini

Simone Martini (c. 1284 – July 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 of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini's brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very little documentation of Simone's life survives, and many attributions are debated by art historians. According to E. H. Gombrich, he was a friend of Petrarch and had painted a portrait of Laura.

Notable works: Commemoration of Guidoriccio Da Fogliano at the Siege of Montemassi, Annunciation with Saints Maxima and Ansanus, Orsini Polyptych, Triptych of Saint Augustine, Polyptych of Saint Dominique, Fresque de Simone Martini, Saint Andrew, The Angel of the Annunciation

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