Gherardo Starnina
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Gherardo Starnina was an Italian painter from Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

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According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...

, Starnina initially trained with Antonio Veneziano
Antonio Veneziano (painter)
Antonio Veneziano , was an Italian painter who was active mainly in Siena, Florence and Pisa, documented between 1369 and 1419....

, then with Agnolo Gaddi
Agnolo Gaddi
Agnolo Gaddi was an Italian painter. He was the son and pupil of the painter Taddeo Gaddi.Taddeo Gaddi was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto...

. He is claimed to have participated in the painting of the frescos in the Castellani Chapel in Santa Croce
Santa Croce
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, Florence. He is also said to have moved to Spain
Spain
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 in 1380 to work under Juan I of Castile, and is attributed some painting in the San Blas chapel of the Cathedral of Toledo
Cathedral of Toledo
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Several paintings formerly attributed to the Master of the Bambino Vispo
Master of the Bambino Vispo
The Master of the Bambino Vispo was an Italian painter active in the early 15th century.In the early 20th century, the art historian Osvald Sirén identified a group of unsigned paintings as being by the same artist...

are now attributed to Gherardo Starnina, and the two artists may have been the same person.
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