Agnolo Gaddi

Agnolo Gaddi
Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels, by Agnolo Gaddi (1380/90)
Born	Agnolo di Taddeo Gaddi c.1350 Florence, Italy
Died	October 10, 1396 Florence, Italy
Occupation	Painter
Years active	1369–1396
Relatives	Taddeo Gaddi (Father)

Agnolo Gaddi (c.1350–1396) was an Italian painter. He was born and died in Florence, and was the son of the painter Taddeo Gaddi.

Angnolo Gaddi

Taddeo Gaddi was himself the major pupil of the Florentine master Giotto. Agnolo was an influential and prolific artist who was the last major Florentine painter stylistically descended from Giotto. Among his pupils was the author of an art treatise, Cennino Cennini.^[1]

Paintings[]

Giorgio Vasari included a biography of Agnolo Gaddi in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Gaddi's work includes frescoes in the choir of Santa Croce in Florence as well as:

• Madonna Enthroned with Saints and Angels (1380/1390), tempera on panel, National Gallery of Art. Triptych, possibly commissioned for a Cistercian monastery.
• Coronation of the Virgin (c.1370), tempera on panel.^[2] This painting is probably the central panel of an altarpiece, possibly from the church of San Giovanni de' Fieri near Pisa.
• Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints (c. 1375) tempera on panel at Galleria nazionale di Parma
• Madonna of Humility with Angels (mid 1390s), tempera on panel
• The Crucifixion (c. 1390) tempera and gold on panel. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid^[3]
• Madonna and Child with Angels and Saints, tempera on panel (Palazzo Blu collection)
• Crucifixion (no date), tempera on wood. Part of a polyptych.
• Histories of the Virgin and the Cintola in Prato Cathedral

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Agnolo Gaddi.

• National Gallery of Art, Biography
• Agnolo Gaddi
• Italian Paintings: Florentine School, a collection catalog containing information about Gaddi and his works (see pages: 46–49).