Petrach's Virgil (title page) (c.1336)
Illuminated manuscript, 29,5 x 20 cm
Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Simone Martini (c.1284–1344) was a Sienese painter, who was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. His brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very little documentation survives regarding Simone's life, and many attributions are debated by art historians. Simone Martini died while in the service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344. Download high resolution version (545x800, 176 KB)Petrachs Virgil, title page by Simone Martini (c. ... Download high resolution version (545x800, 176 KB)Petrachs Virgil, title page by Simone Martini (c. ... // Events War and politics King Charles II of Naples is captured in a naval battle off Naples by Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ... This page is about Siena, Italy. ... International Gothic is a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s. ... Maestà (Madonna with Angels and Saints) (1308-11) Tempera on wood, 214 x 412 cm Museo dellOpera del Duomo, Siena Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255, Siena - 1319, Siena) was the most influential Sienese artist of his time and one of the key figures in the development of European painting. ... Coat of arms of Avignon Avignon (pronounced in IPA, Provençal: Avignoun) is a commune in southern France with some 88,300 inhabitants in the city itself and 155,500 in the Greater Avignon area. ... Events English king Edward III introduces three new gold coins, the florin. ...

Simone was doubtless apprenticed from an early age, as would have been the normal practice. Among his first documented works is the "Maestà" of 1315 in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena. A copy of the work, executed shortly thereafter by Lippo Memmi in San Gimignano, testifies to the enduring influence Simone's prototypes would have on other artists throughout the fourteenth century. Perpetuating the Sienese tradition, Simone's style contrasted with the sobriety and monumentality of Florentine art, and is noted for its soft, stylized, decorative feautures, sinuosity of line, and unsurpassed courtly elegance. Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome. Events August 13 - Louis X of France marries Clemence dAnjou. ... San Gimignano San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill-top town in Tuscany, Italy, about a 35 minute drive north-west of Siena. ... Founded 59 BC as Florentia Region Tuscany Mayor Leonardo Domenici (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  102 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 356,000 almost 500,000 3,453/km² Time zone CET, UTC+1 Latitude Longitude 43°47 N 11°15 E www. ... Via Francigena was an important medieval road connecting Canterbury, England ) and France with Rome via Switzerland. ...

Simone's major works include the Maestà (1315) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, St Louis of Toulouse Crowning the King at the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples (1317), the S. Caterina Polyptych in Pisa (1319) and the Annunciation and two Saints at the Uffizi in Florence (1333), as well as frescoes in the Chapel of St. Martin in the lower church of S. Francesco, Assisi. Francis Petrarch became friends with Simone while in Avignon, and two of his sonnets make reference to a portrait of Laura de Noves he supposedly painted for the poet. The Lower and Upper Church from the lower piazza Assisi (Latin: Asisium) is a town and episcopal see on the western flank of Mt. ... From the c. ... Laura is incredible She is so insanely amazing that her fans commit terroristic acts in order to catch her attention. ...

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• Christ Discovered in the Temple (1342) in The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
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