For the 16th-century cardinal, see Taddeo Gaddi (cardinal).
Taddeo Gaddi
Taddeo Gaddi (c. 1290, in Florence – 1366, in Florence) was a medieval Italian painter and architect.
He was the son of Gaddo di Zanobi, called Gaddo Gaddi. 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.[2]
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, to which he added a personal experimentation in the architectural backgrounds, such as in the staircase of the Presentation of the Virgin in the Baroncelli Chapel.
According to some scholars, he collaborated in the Stefaneschi Polyptych in Rome. His other works include a Madonna in Bern, an Adoration of the Magi in Dijon, the Stories of Job (Pisa, Camposanto Monumentale), the Madonna Enthroned with Child, Angels and Saints (Florence, Uffizi Gallery), The Stigmatization of Saint Francis (Cambridge, MA, Harvard Art Museums), the Madonna del Parto (Florence), and the Polyptych in Santa Felicita's sacristy, Florence. Barcelona's MNAC keeps as a permanent loan from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid a small tempera panel dated in 1325, a Nativity that was part of a larger table.[3] Vasari credited him also of the design and reconstruction of the Ponte Vecchio, which is however disputed by modern scholars.
He was the father of Agnolo Gaddi and Giovanni Gaddi.
Stories of the Virgin (north wall), c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence
Visitation, c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Annunciation to the Shepherds, c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Adoration of the Magi, c1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Arbor vitae, c. 1330-40 or -60, Santa Croce Refectory
^Taddo Gaddi, Britannica.com
^Rossetti 1911.
^"The Nativity". Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
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has frescoes by TaddeoGaddi executed between 1328 and 1338. The fresco cycle represents the Stories of the Virgin. In this work, Gaddi showed his mastership...
begins with the professional life of the painter Giotto and includes TaddeoGaddi, Orcagna, and Altichiero. The Early Renaissance style was started by...
14th-century church of Santi Michele e Paolo with a painting attributed to TaddeoGaddi. The municipality is formed by the municipal seat of Montieri and the...
recorded the traditional view of his day that attributed its design to TaddeoGaddi— besides Giotto one of the few artistic names of the trecento still recalled...
lawyers judged in the trial between merchants. Here was a porch painted by TaddeoGaddi, Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Sandro Botticelli, today stored in the Uffizi...
later painters, and the motive of Caritas offering a heart is shown by TaddeoGaddi in Santa Croce, by Andrea Pisano on the bronze door of the south porch...
be derivative of Giotto's. Vasari misidentified him as a student of TaddeoGaddi, a noted Giotto protégé.[1] Hailing from Lombardy, the earliest documentation...
in a Gothic art style. Almost no works survive. He was the father of TaddeoGaddi. He completed mosaics on the facade of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome....
Leading off the inner courtyard is the Guidi Chapel, covered in frescos by TaddeoGaddi, a pupil of Giotto. Lightning struck the tower during the 19th century...
Tuscany, Italy during the 14th—century. Notable examples include works by TaddeoGaddi, Bernardo Daddi and Nardo di Cione, but the fresco by Piero della Francesca...
influenced by Giotto. He was a student of Agnolo Gaddi in Florence. Gaddi trained under his father, called TaddeoGaddi, who trained with Giotto. Cennini was born...
destroyed by a flood in 1333. The bridge of five arches constructed by TaddeoGaddi was also destroyed in the flood of 1557, which occasioned Ammannati's...
painting. His 1983 book, TaddeoGaddi: A Critical Review and Catalogue Raisonné, was the first detailed study of TaddeoGaddi in the English language....
depict miracles: for example, in the Annunciation to the Shepherds by TaddeoGaddi (Santa Croce, Florence) or in the Stigmatization of Saint Francis by...
Metz before the church was even built). In the vaults are frescoes by TaddeoGaddi. The raised choir and presbytery contain a magnificent Romanesque pulpit...
Spinello Aretino (between 1377 and 1391), and the Stories of Job, by TaddeoGaddi (end of 14th century). In the same time, in the north gallery were the...
is typical in the West; one or more dogs may be included, as in the TaddeoGaddi (right, with red collar). The annunciation to the shepherds became less...
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Stories of the Virgin (north wall), c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence
Visitation, c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Annunciation to the Shepherds, c. 1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Adoration of the Magi, c1330, Baroncelli Chapel
Arbor vitae, c. 1330-40 or -60, Santa Croce Refectory
