Gaddi

Italian family of artists. Gaddo (c. 1260–1332) was a painter and mosaic worker, a friend of Cimabue, whose influence has been perceived in the Coronation of the Virgin with Saints and Angels, a mosaic in the cathedral at Florence attributed to Gaddo. Other works attributed to him are the mosaics in Santa Maria Maggiore and those of the choir of the old St Peter's, Rome. His son, Taddeo (c. 1300–1366) was a pupil of Giotto and is considered one of his most important followers. His paintings include the frescoes Virgin and Child between Four Prophets and other scenes from the life of the Virgin in the Baroncelli Chapel in Santa Croce at Florence (1332), as well as works at Pisa, Pistoia and in various galleries. The son of Taddeo, Agnolo (died 1396), perhaps trained by his father, was placed on the latter's death in the care of Jacopo del Casentino and Giovanni da Milano. He worked in the Vatican in 1369, probably with his brother Giovanni. Frescoes in Santa Croce depicting the legend of the Cross, and in the cathedral of Prato (1392–95), representing the legends of the Virgin and the Sacred Girdle, are attributed to him. He died while working on an altarpiece for San Miniato. He employed a number of assistants, and Cennino Cennini was among his pupils, embodying the methods of the followers of Giotto in his treatise on art.