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Mar042022

Simone Martini: A Forerunner of Artistic Movements

DateFriday, March 4, 2022 at 9:00AM

Simone Martini - The Miracle of the Child Attacked and Rescued from the Blessed Agostino Novello Triptych, c. 1328 - Tempera on wood -Height: 82 cm (32.2 in); Width: 67 cm (26.3 in) - Church of St. Augustine Novello, Siena, Italy (click photo for larger image)Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) was an important exponent of Gothic painting who did more than any other artist to spread the influence of Sienese painting. His work is also often identified as Proto-Renaissance.

He was very possibly a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, from whom he probably inherited his love of harmonious, pure colors and most of his early figural types. To these he added a gracefulness of line and delicacy of interpretation that were inspired by works  based on the French Gothic style, which the young artist studied in Italy. 

Martini would have an enormous influence on the later International Gothic Style, as well as on the Renaissance and modern art.

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