Puccio Capanna was an Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, who lived and worked in

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between 1341 and 1347. He is also called ''Puccio Campana''. Capanna was originally a Florentine.

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described him as one of Giotto’s most important pupils, whom the inhabitants of Assisi considered to be a fellow citizen as he had done a lot of paintings in the churches there, e.g. frescos with scenes from the ''

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'' on the vaulting of the lower church of the

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. He is said to have painted the Santa Maria Egiziaca ( St. Mary of Egypt) in the church of San Francesco in

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See M. Farquhar. ?? and ''Scenes from the Life of St. Francis and Christ'' in the chapterhouse there. A document of 1341, confirms the existence of a painter in Assisi named Puccio di Capanna: the authorities commissioned ''Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio'' to paint images of the Virgin and Child with Saints on the ''Porta externa platee nove'' and the ''Porta Sancti Ruphini'' ( Cathedral of San Rufino) (see Abate). Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347, when he sold oxen to the

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(Cenci, 1974). Many of the pieces of art, which he had done according to Fra Ludovico da Pietralunga (16th century) and

do not exist anymore. He died at Assisi.

References

* *Cesare Cenci. ''Documentazione di vita assisana 1300-1530'' (Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, X-XII), Grottaferrata 1974–1976, Vol. I, p. 85 (Italian). *''Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon'' (Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker), Vol. 16 (Campagne-Cartellier), K.G. Saur, München/Leipzig 1997, p. 225–227 (German).

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Fresco of the ''Crucifixion'' (1330)

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Short biography at artnet.de. It refers to ''The Grove Dictionary of Art''
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