Buonamico Buffalmacco
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Buonamico di Martino, otherwise known as Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. 1315–1336), was an
Painted some ten years before the
Reception
Giovanni Boccaccio in his Decameron and Franco Sacchetti in his Il trecentonovelle both describe Buonamico Buffalmacco as being a practical joker. Boccaccio features Buonamico along with his friends and fellow painters Calandrino and Bruno in several tales (Day VIII, tales 3, 6, and 9; Day IX, tales 3 and 5). Typically in these stories, Buonamico uses his wits to play tricks on his friends and associates: convincing Calandrino that a stone he possesses (heliotrope) confers invisibility (VIII, 3), stealing a pig from Calandrino (VIII, 6), convincing the physician Master Simone of an opportunity to ally himself with the Devil (VIII, 9), convincing Calandrino that he has become pregnant (IX, 3), convincing Calandrino that a particular scroll can cause a woman to fall in love with him (IX, 5). Throughout the stories, Buonamico is frequently depicted at work painting in the houses of notable gentlemen in Florence but eager to take time to eat, drink, and be merry.
Italian art historian
In the Trionfo della Morte ("Triumph of Death"), a group of leisurely young
Vasari discusses various paintings by the artist which no longer exist, and many of which had already perished by the time of Vasari's writing in the 16th century. He describes a series of paintings at the convent of Faenza in
Notes
- ^ OCLC 2014943688.
- ^ LCCN 2011050166.
- ^ ISBN 9788816404335.
- ^ Vasari, Giorgio. The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects. Trans. A. B. Hinds. New York: Everyman's Library. 1980. Vol. 1, Pp. 109-122.
- OCLC 876164308.
- ^ Vasari, 1980, 118.
- ^ Vasari, 1980, 122.
- ^ Vasari, 1980, 109.
- ^ Vasari, 1980, 122.
References
- Vasari, Giorgio; translation by George Bull (1965). Lives of the Artists. Penguin Classics.
- Land, Norman, “Vasari’s Buffalmacco and the Transubstantiation of Paint,” Renaissance Quarterly, 58 (2005): 881–895.
See also
- Black Death in medieval culture
- Italian Renaissance literature
- Themes in Italian Renaissance painting