Andrea di Bonaiuto

Fresco in the Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Andrea di Bonaiuto , Andrea Bonaiuti or Andrea da Firenze (* 14th century in Florence , † 1379 in Florence) was a Florentine painter.

Life

Andrea de Bonaiuto is proven in 1346 as a member of the Florentine Guild of Doctors and Pharmacists, to which the painters belonged. In 1355 he went to Pisa , where he worked for around 10 years. After his return to Florence he was commissioned by Buonamico Guidalotti, a wealthy Florentine citizen and patron, to paint the chapter house of the Dominican monastery of Santa Maria Novella . The conception of the cycle of images, which honors Thomas Aquinas , allegorically depicts the Christian faith and in which the theology of the Dominicans is reflected, probably comes from the Dominican Jacopo Passavanti , who lived in the convent of Santa Maria Novella.

From 1365 to 1367 Bonaiuto was involved in the planning for the Florentine Cathedral. After a short stay in Orvieto , he returned to Florence in 1375, where he painted a panel of St. Luke painted for the Santa Maria Nuova Monastery. In 1377 he was commissioned to paint an altarpiece in Pisa and a fresco for Camposanto , which is no longer preserved.

literature

Gosbert Arthur Schüssler: On the Thomas fresco by Andrea Bonaiuti in the Spanish chapel of the cloister of Santa Maria Novella. In: Communications from the Art History Institute of Florence. Volume 24, Issue 3, 1980, JSTOR 27652502 , pp. 251-274.
Igino Benvenuto Supino: Andrea da Firenze . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 1 : Aa – Antonio de Miraguel . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1907, p. 452–453 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Luisa Marcucci: ANDREA di Bonaiuto. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 3: Ammirato – Arcoleo. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.

Web links

Commons : Andrea di Bonaiuto - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ The Giotteschi ( Memento of 7 December 2008 at the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Andrea di Bonaiuto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Andrea Bonaiuti; Andrea da Firenze
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Florence
DATE OF DEATH	1379
Place of death	Florence

[1] The Giotteschi ( Memento of 7 December 2008 at the Internet Archive )