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Guidoriccio da Fogliano at the siege of Montemassi
Copy of the original work, Art reproduction painting - Medieval Art shop.
This fresco, painted by Simone Martini, depicts Guidoriccio da Fogliano, commandant of the Siena army as it takes hold of the Montemassi Castle in the Maremma in 1328. It is located in the Sala Maggiore of the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, in front of Martini Simone.
The section on the right side of the fresco, where the Montemassi Castle is situated, was repainted in the late-1400s. The sky was also touched up after the frescos were completed. Both the leader of the troops is in the center, and the encampment on the left, are in good condition, even though they have lost their rich, original decorative elements. Both paintings by Martini, which face each other in the Sala Maggiore, counter civic glories against the religious and political glories of the city. Martini painted a cycle of narrative fresco that retells the conquests of the city of Siena in the surrounding countryside: castles in the Maremma and Amiata that they conquered in the 1300s and the 1400s. In the Mappamondo room in Siena’s Palazzo Pubblico, Martini’s artwork depicting the mercenary commandant.
Simone Martini (c. 1284 c. 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena.
He 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.
Simone was doubtlessly apprenticed from an early age, as would have been the normal practice. Among his first documented works is the Maest� 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 features, 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.
Simone's major works include the Maest� (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 the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi. Francis Petrarch became friend 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.
Other notable frescoes include the mysterious fresco of
Guidoriccio da Fogliano at the siege of Montemassi, located in the Great Council Hall (Sala del Mappamondo). The fresco is traditionally attributed to Simone Martini, although there is debate on the subject. The wall has circular markings left by the circular wall-mounted (now lost) map of the world by Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
Original: Palazzo Pubblico, Great Council Hall (Sala del Mappamondo), Siena
Author: Simone Martini ( 1284-1344)
Measures: 60x45 cm
Technique: Tempera and gold on a wooden panel
Notes: Art reproduction painting - Medieval Art shop
Art reproduction, medieval painting reproduction Copy of the painting by Simone Martini.
Price: Sold
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