Francesco Traini was an Italian Painter who was demonstrably active from 1321 to approx. 1365 in Pisa and Bologna. There is only one work which is known to be by Traini without doubt: In 1345 he singed and dated a polyptych of the Pisan church S. Caterina, showing Saint Dominic and eight hagiographic scenes (now in the Museo Nazionale, Pisa). By comparison of style it seems to be the prevaling opinion among contemporary scholars to attibute many of the huge frescoes of the Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa to him, including the Last Judgement, Inferno, Legends of the Hermits and, finally, the famous Il Trionfo della Morte (the Triumph of Death) - which is thought by some scholars to be by the Buonamico Buffalmacco, though. Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Bologna (pronounced , from Latin Bononia, BulÃ¥ggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ... A polyptych (from the Greek polu- many + ptychÄ“ fold) generally refers to a painting (usually panel painting) which is divided into four or more sections, or panels. ... St. ... A XIV Century fresco featuring Saint Sebastian Note: Fresco is the NATO reporting name of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17. ... Buonamico di Martino or Buonamico Buffalmacco (active c. ...

Especially the Trionfo della Morte (after 1350) is considered one of the finest and most powerful artworks of the Trecento as it displays the merciless omnipresence of death very drastically. It can be seen – just like the earliest examples of Totentanz paintings at the same time in Germany - as a reaction to the horrors the black death of the late 1340ies. From mille trecento, Italian for 1300. ... This article is about La Dance Macabre, the late-medieval allegory. ... Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible (1411). ...

It is most unfortunate that the frechoes of the Camposanto very severly damaged or even destroyed by Allied air raids in World War II. Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...

Sources

John White: Art and Architecture in Italy 1250-1400. Pelican History of Art 1993

The Triumph of Death