Puccio di Simone

Puccio di Simone (fl. 1346–1358) was an Italian Gothic painter, active in Florence.

Polittico with Madonna and Saints, Certaldo, Museum of Sacred Art

Biography

Puccio di Simone is also known as the Master of the Fabriano Altarpiece. He was a student of Bernardo Daddi in Florence. He is mentioned between 1348 and 1357.^[1] He appears to have collaborated with Allegretto Nuzi in Fabriano.^[2]

Work

Saint Ansano and two angels

Work by Puccio di Simone can be found in:

• Coronation of the Virgin, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
• Madonna, Petit Palais, Avignon, France
• Madonna and Child, Montor Collection, Paris, France
• Madonna and Saints (polyptych), Museum of Sacred Art, Certaldo, Italy
• St Anthony altarpiece (1353), Pinacoteca of Fabriano, Italy^[3]
• Triptych of Madonna with Saints Laurentius, Onuphrius, Jacobus and Barthomoleus, Accademia, Florence, Italy
• Saints Lucia and Catherine, Galleria di Palazzo degli Alberti, Prato, Italy
• St Ansano and two angels, Church of Saint Giovanni Battista and Saint Ansano, Vinci, Italy
• Madonna with angels and saints, National Gallery of Art Washington D.C., USA
• St James Major, Seattle Art Museum Seattle, Washington, USA
• Crucifixion, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
• Adoration of the Kings, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA

Further reading

• Pope-Hennessy, John & Kanter, Laurence B. (1987). The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings. New York, Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 0870994794.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (see index; plate 27)