Margarito (lived late 13th century)

Italian painter, sculptor, and architect, active from 1262. He worked in the very formal Byzantine style, an example being the altarpiece Virgin and Child Enthroned about 1265 (National Gallery, London), though the central figure of the Virgin has a simplicity inspired by Romanesque art.

Although one of the very few 13th-century artists to sign his work, Margarito remains an obscure figure. Other signed works are in Arezzo, Siena, and Washington, DC. The altarpiece in London shows in its eight outer panels (depicting the lives of the saints) the clear survival of the Byzantine style in Italy.