Scenes on the north wall

1385 · Chancel Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence

religious

The sequence of scenes begins in the lunette of the south wall and then extends over the other three image field on the same wall. The frescoes continue on the north wall, beginning again in the lunette. This picture shows scenes in the third and fourth image fields from the top on the north wall.

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About the Artist

Agnolo Gaddi

1350 – 1396

Florentine painter, the son of Taddeo Gaddi. He continued the Giotto tradition but modified it still further in the direction of decorative elegance. He is particularly notable for his cool pale colours, which infiuenced the refined late Gothic art of artists of the next generation such as Lorenzo Monaco. Agnolo's works include frescos on The Story of the Cross in the chancel of Sta Croce (after 1374) and on The Story of the Virgin and her Girdle in the Chapel of the Holy Girdle in Prato Cathedral (1392-5). Many panel paintings also are attributed to Agnolo.

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