SPINELLO See also:ARETINO (c. 1330-c. 1410)
, See also:Italian painter, the son of a Florentine named Luca, who had taken See also:refuge in See also:Arezzo in 1310 when exiled with the See also:rest of the Ghibelline party, was See also:born at Arezzo about 1330
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Spinello was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of Jacopo di Casentino, a follower of See also:Giotto, and his own See also:style was a sort of See also:link between the school of Giotto and that of See also:Siena
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In the See also:early See also:part of his See also:life he worked in See also:Florence as an assistant to his See also:master Jacopo while See also:painting frescoes in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the See also:Carmine and in Sta Maria Novella
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Between 136o and 1384 he was occupied in painting many frescoes in and near Arezzo, almost all of which have now perished
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After the See also:sack of Arezzo in 1384 Spinello returned to Florence, and in 1387-1388 with some assistants covered the walls and vault of the See also:sacristy of S
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Miniato near Florence with a See also:series of frescoes, the See also:chief of which represent scenes from the life of St See also:Benedict
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These still exist, though in a sadly restored See also:condition; they are very Giotto-like in See also:composition, but have some of the Siena decorative brilliance of See also:colour
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In 1301-1392 Spinello was painting six frescoes, which still remain on the See also:south See also:wall of the See also:Pisan Campo Santo, representing miracles of St Potitus and St See also:Ephesus
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For these he received 270 See also:gold florins
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Among his later See also:works the chief are the very See also:fine series of frescoes painted in 1407-1408 on the walls and vault of a See also:chapel in the municipal buildings of Siena; these also have suffered much from repainting, but still are the finest of Spinello's existing frescoes
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Sixteen of these represent the See also:war of See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa against the See also:republic of See also:Venice
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Spinello died at Arezzo about 1410
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Spinello's frescoes are all strong and highly decorative works, See also:drawn with much spirit, and are very See also:superior in style to his See also:panel pictures, many, of which appear to be See also:mere bottega productions
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The See also:academy of Florence possesses a panel of the " Madonna and See also:Saints," which is chiefly interesting for its See also:signature—" Hoc See also:opus pinxit Spinellus Luce Aritio D.I.A.(1391)." The easel pictures which are to be found in the various galleries of See also:Europe give little or no notion of Spinello's See also:power as a painter
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