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Buonamico Buffalmacco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (110 words) |
 | Buonamico di Martino or Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. |
 | None of his work is known to have survived, although he is assumed to be the painter of The Triumph of Death, a fresco cycle in the Camposanto in Pisa. |
 | Boccaccio (in his Decameron) and Sacchetti (in his Il trecentonovelle) both describe Buonamico as being a practical joker. |
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 | Buonamico di Cristofano, nicknamed Buffa]macco, was a pupil of Andrea Tafi, and has been celebrated as a jester by Boccaccio. |
 | This was displeasing to Buonamico, who had to rise in the middle of his best sleep, and he considered how he might prevent Andrea from getting up before day to work, and this was what occurred to him. |
 | This animal being sometimes on the scaffold watching Buonamico work, gave his whole mind to the matter, and never took his eyes off him when he was mixing his colours, handling his paintpots, beating up the eggs to make the tempera, or in fact doing any part of his work. |