Pietà of San Remigio

religious

Celebrating the eloquent expression on faces of figures and their gestures, Vasari remembers the altarpiece in the Florentine church of San Remigio: the scene is grouped in the lower part of the painting, with the dead Christ, the Virgin, Mary Magdalen and other saints crying him. On the left the saints Remigio and Benedict with two kneeling women in modern clothes, probably the donors of the picture. The painting is mentioned by Vasari as a work of Giotto di maestro Stefano called Giottino, and not otherwise documented.

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About the Artist

Giottino

1320 – 1369

Italian painter, who probably painted the S. Remigio Deposition in Florence (Uffizi) which was regarded as a work of Maso di Banco by Vasari and earlier writers. The distinction of hand is evident, but it is by no means certain that Giottino was identical with a Giotto di Maestro Stefano who was painting in the Vatican in 1369, who in turn cannot be reconciled with Vasari's Maso/Giottino figure. No other work can reasonably be attributed to the painter of the Uffizi Deposition, unless one accepts the attribution of it to Orcagna 's brother Nardo di Cione.

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