Puccio Capanna
Puccio Capanna was an Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in Assisi, Umbria, Italy between 1341 and 1347. He is also called Puccio Campana.
Capanna was originally a Florentine.
Cathedral of San Rufino) (see Abate). Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347, when he sold oxen to the Sacro Convento
(Cenci, 1974).
Many of the pieces of art, which he had done according to Fra
Vasari do not exist anymore. Some paintings of the Passion on the vaulting of the Lower Church at Assisi have been attributed to him. Scenes from the life of St. Francis and Christ, painted in the chapterhouse of San Francesco in Pistoia
, are attributed to him. He died at Assisi.
References
- ^ See M. Farquhar.
- C. Cenci. Documentazione di vita assisana 1300-1530. (Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, X-XII), Grottaferrata 1974-1976, vol. I. (Italian lang.), p. 85.
- SAUR Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker), Band 16 (Campagne-Cartellier), K.G.Saur, München, Leipzig, 1997. (German lang.), p. 225-227.
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 228.
External links
Media related to Puccio Capanna at Wikimedia Commons
- Fresco of the crucifixion 1330, North Carolina Museum of Art collection
- Short biography at artnet.de. It refers to The Grove Dictionary of Art
- Puccio Capanna Key to Umbria
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