- Puccio Capanna
Puccio Capanna was an Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in
Assisi ,Umbria ,Italy between1341 and1347 . He is also called "Puccio Campana".Capanna was originally a Florentine.
Vasari described him as one of Giotto’s most important pupils, whom the inhabitants of Assisi considered to be a fellow citizen as he had done a lot of paintings in the churches there, e.g. at the lower church of theBasilica of San Francesco d'Assisi . He is said to have painted the Santa Maria Egiziaca (St. Mary of Egypt ) in the church of San Francesco inPistoia [ See M. Farquhar.] A document of 1341, confirms the existence of a painter in Assisi named Puccio di Capanna: the authorities commissioned "Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio" to paint images of the Virgin and Child with Saints on the "Porta externa platee nove" and the "Porta Sancti Ruphini" (Cathedral of San Rufino ) (see Abate). Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347, when he "sold oxes to theSacro Convento " (Cenci, 1974).Unfortunately, many of the pieces of arts, which he had done according to Fra
Ludovico da Pietralunga (16.ct.) andVasari 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 inPistoia , are attributed to him. He died at Assisi.References
*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.
*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1886| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume I: A-K)| editor = Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 228| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4GYCAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=DICTIONARY+AACHEN+AALST&as_brr=1| authorlink=External links
* [http://www.ncmoa.org/collections/highlights/european/italian/before1460/capanna_lrg.shtml Fresco of the "crucifixion" 1330, North Carolina Museum of Art collection]
* [http://www.artnet.de/library/01/0138/T013810.asp Short biography at artnet.de. It refers to "The Grove Dictionary of Art"]
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