Francesco da Volterra (, ) was an

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painter. He resided in

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from 1370 to 1372, where, from the records of the

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, he painted the ''History of Job'' on the south wall. Like the rest of the earlier pictures in the Campo Santo, it is now almost obliterated, but some idea of its weird realism may still be formed from Lasinio's ''Pitture del Campo Santo'' and other reproductions in

books on art. Francesco da Volterra is supposed to have been identical with Francesco di Maestro Giotto, a painter of

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, whose name occurs in the records of the city Guild for 1341.

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* People from Volterra 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Tuscany Year of birth missing Year of death missing {{Italy-painter-14thC-stub