Bernardo Daddi
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Italy
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renaissance
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painter and apprentice of Giotto
Giotto di Bondone
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. He was also influenced by the Sienese art of Lorenzetti
Lorenzetti
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.
Daddi's birth date remains unknown. He is first mentioned in 1312. He focused on religious motifs and altarpiece
Altarpiece
An altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
s. A triptych
Triptych
A triptych , from tri-= "three" + ptysso= "to fold") is a work of art which is divided into three sections, or three carved panels which are hinged together and can be folded shut or displayed open. It is therefore a type of polyptych, the term for all multi-panel works...
he painted in 1328 is in the Uffizi
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, and there are several panels in National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art
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and the Walters Art Gallery.
Daddi became the leading painter of Florence
Florence
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during his generation. His last work dates from 1347, and it is believed he died the next year.
Works
- The Martyrdom of St Stephen (1324, unverified)
- Madonna and two Saints, or Ognissanti Triptych (1328)
- St. Ursula (1333)
- Madonna and Child (1335), OrsanmicheleOrsanmicheleOrsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence...
, Florence - Four Musical Angels, part of the altarpiece The Coronation of the Virgin, Christ Church Picture GalleryChrist Church Picture GalleryChrist Church Picture Gallery is an art museum at Christ Church, one of the colleges of Oxford University in England. The gallery holds an important collection of about 300 Old Master paintings and nearly 2,000 drawings. It is one of the most important private collections in the United Kingdom...
, OxfordOxfordThe city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through... - The Coronation of the Virgin, National Gallery of Art, London,
- The Marriage of the Virgin (1336–1340)
- PolyptychPolyptychA polyptych generally refers to a painting which is divided into sections, or panels. The terminology that follows is in relevance to the number of panels integrated into a particular piece of work: "diptych" describes a two-part work of art; "triptych" describes a three-part work; "tetraptych"...
of S. Pancrazio (1336–1340)
The Assumption of the virgin (1337- 1339)
Triptych with Madonna and Christ Child,Minneapolis Institute of Art