Stefano Fiorentino

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Stefano Pittor, Fiorentina , ahistorical portrait, frontispiece of the article in Le Vite by Giorgio Vasari

Stefano Fiorentino ( 1301 - 1350 ) was an Italian painter of the time of Giotto .

Life

Born in Florence (hence the name), he learned painting from Giotto and is said to have soon surpassed his master.

"... avanzò di tanto il suo maestro stesso (Giotto) che fu, e meritamente, tenuto il miglior di quanti pittori erano stati infino a quel tempo, come chiaramente dimostrano l'opere sue."

"... he surpassed even his master so much that he was deservedly considered the best painter up to that time, as his works clearly show"

- Giorgio Vasari

Many literary sources mention him, apart from Vasari also Franco Sacchetti . Filippo Villani judges him in his Liber de origine Florentinae et eiusdem famosis civibus (1375-1404) rather derogatory and says that he is a “monkey” obsessed with the reproduction of nature down to the smallest detail.

In his Commentarii, Ghiberti calls him Giotto's first pupil, “egregiissimo dottore”, and attributes a number of frescoes to him in Florence: three episodes in the cloister of Santo Spirito , a portrait of Thomas Aquinas and other paintings in the Church of Santa Maria Novella and Assisi . In 1347 he is mentioned in Pistoia as the painter of a missing altarpiece of the main altar of the church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in Pistoia.

Stefano Fiorentino died around 1350. In honor of Giotto, his son Tommaso , according to Vasari, took the name Giottino (little Giotto).

Works

Vasari praises its modernity:

  • the Madonna , fresco in the Camposanto of Pisa (which is better in drawing and color than Giotto's work)
  • three episodes from the life of Christ in Santo Spirito
    • a transfiguration of Christ
    • Christ frees the possessed from the demon (Vasari: "It seems as if one begins to see a certain light of the good and perfect maniera ")
  • some work for Matteo Visconti in Milan (perhaps in the Visconti chapel of the church of Sant'Eustorgio or in the Abbey of Chiaravalle )
  • a martyrdom of St. Mark in the Cappella degli Asinider church of Santa Croce in Florence
  • some Storie di Cristo in the apse of the old (demolished) basilica of Saint Peter in Rome;
  • a saint Louis of Toulouse in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome
  • a heavenly glory in the Cappella Maggiore of the Basilica inferiore of Assisi

They are attributed to a "relative of Giotto", in whom some believe they recognize Stefano Fiorentino.

  • a Madonna of Humility in the tabernacle of the Gianfigliazzi, near the Florentine Ponte alla Carraia ;
  • the frescoes on the walls and vault of San Jacopo in Pistoia
  • the frescoes in the chapel of St. Catherine of the Church of San Domenico (Perugia)

and others more

No work of Stefanos survived with certainty by those listed by Vasari has come down to us today. Recently (2010) some of the frescoes in the Cistercian Abbey of Chiaravalle near Milan were attributed to him.

Picture gallery

literature

  • Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art. Volume 29: Södermark to Summerson. Grove, New York 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 , pp. 598-599.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jane Turner: The Dictionary of Art. Grove, New York 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 , pp. 598-599.
  2. ↑ Destroyed in the World War in 1944 and only preserved in photographs fe.fondazionezeri.unibo.it
  3. ↑ The basilica was completely rebuilt in the Quattrocento
  4. ↑ destroyed 1622. In Assisi a number of frescoes with St. Francis allegories have been preserved, which show an extraordinary mastery of the coloring, the narration and the expression of the figures.
  5. ↑ Nothing has survived from the tabernacle on Lungarno Corsini
  6. ^ Giorgio Vasari: Le Vite
  7. ↑ Federico Zeri does not ascribe a single known work to him. fe.fondazionezeri.unibo.it
  8. ↑ Serena Romano: Sandrina Bandera (ed.): Un poema cistercense. Affreschi giotteschi a Chiaravalle Milanese (Electa Milan, 2010) . In: Giornale dell'arte . No. 299 . Giornale dell'Arte, Milan 2010, ISBN 978-88-370-7363-3 (Italian, ilgiornaledellarte.com [accessed May 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Fiorentino, Stefano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1301
DATE OF DEATH 1350