Taddeo gaddi biography examples

Italian painter

For the 16th-century cardinal, see Taddeo Gaddi (cardinal).

Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italianpainter and architect.

He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi.

Taddeo gaddi biography examples

He was a member of Giotto's workshop from 1313 until the master's death in 1337. According to Giorgio Vasari, he was considered Giotto's most talented pupil: in 1347 he was placed at the top in a list of Florence's most renowned painters.^[1] He also traded as a merchant, and had a branch establishment in Venice.

As well as a painter, he was a mosaicist and architect.

His main work is the cycle of Stories of the Virgin in the Baroncelli Chapel of the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence (1328–1338). Later he perhaps painted the cabinet tiles in the sacristy of the same church, now divided among the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence and museums in Munich and Berlin.

These works show his mastership of Giotto's new style,