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GADDI . Four painters of the See also:early Florentine school—father, son and two grandsons—bore this name.
I. GADDO GADDI was, according to See also:Vasari, an intimate friend of See also:Cimabue, and afterwards of See also:Giotto. The See also:dates of See also:birth and See also:death have been given as 1239 and about 1312; these are probably too early; he may have been See also:born towards I26o, and may have died in or about 1333. He was a painter and mosaicist, is said to have executed the See also:great See also:mosaic inside the portal of the See also:cathedral of See also:Florence, representing the See also:coronation of the Virgin, and may with more certainty be credited with the mosaics inside the See also:portico of the See also:basilica of S. Maria See also:Maggiore, See also:Rome, See also:relating to the See also:legend of the See also:foundation of that See also: Some other extant mosaics are attributed to him, but without full authentication. This artist laid the foundation of a very large See also:fortune, which continued increasing, and placed his progeny in a highly distinguished worldly position. 2. TADDEO GADDI (about 1300-1366, or later), son of Gaddo, was born in Florence, and is usually said to have been one of Giotto's most industrious assistants for a See also:period of 24 years. This can hardly be other than an exaggeration; it is probable that he began See also:painting on his own See also:account towards 1330, when Giotto went to See also:Naples. Taddeo also traded as a See also:merchant, and had a See also:branch See also:establishment in See also:Venice. He was a painter, mosaicist and architect. He executed in See also:fresco, in the Baroncelli (now Giugni) See also:chapel, in the Florentine church of S. Croce, the " Virgin and See also:Child between Four Prophets," on the funeral See also:monument at the entrance, and on the walls various incidents in the legend of the Virgin, from the See also:expulsion of See also:Joachim from the See also:Temple up to the Nativity. In the subject of the "Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple " are the two heads traditionally accepted as portraits of Gaddo Gaddi and See also:Andrea Tafi; they, at any See also:rate, are not likely to be portraits of those artists from the life. On the See also:ceiling of the same chapel are the " Eight Virtues." In the museum of See also:Berlin is an altarpiece by Taddeo, the " Virgin and Child," and some other subjects, dated 1334; in the Naples See also:gallery, a See also:triptych, dated 1336, of the " Virgin enthroned along with Four See also:Saints," the " See also:Baptism of Jesus," and his " Deposition from the See also:Cross "; in the See also:sacristy of S. Pietro a Megognano, near Poggibonsi, an altarpiece dated 1355, the " Virgin and Child enthroned amid Angels." A See also:series of paintings, partly from the life of St Francis, which Taddeo executed for the presses in S. Croce, are now divided between the Florentine See also:Academy and the Berlin Museum; the compositions are taken from or founded on Giotto, to whom, indeed, the Berlin authorities have ascribed their examples. Taddeo also painted some frescoes still extant in See also:Pisa, besides many in S. Croce and other Florentine buildings, which have perished. He deservedly ranks as one of the most eminent successors of Giotto; it may be said that he continued working up the material furnished by that great painter, with comparatively feeble See also:inspiration of his own. His figures are vehement in See also:action, See also:long and slender in See also:form; his See also:execution rapid and somewhat conventional. To Taddeo are generally ascribed the celebrated frescoes—those of the ceiling and See also:left or western wall—in the Cappella degli Spagnuoli, in the church of S. Maria Novella, Florence; this is, however, open to considerable doubt, although it may perhaps be conceded that the designs for the ceiling were furnished by Taddeo. Dubious also are the three pictures ascribed to him in the See also:National Gallery, See also:London. In mosaic he has left some See also:work in the See also:baptistery of Florence. As an architect he supplied in 1336 the plans for the See also:present See also:Ponte Vecchio, and those for the original (not the present) Ponte S. Triuita; in 1337 he was engaged on the church of Or See also:San Michele; and he carried on after Giotto's death the work of the unrivalled Campanile. 3. AGNOLO GADDI, born in Florence, was the son of Taddeo; the date of his birth has been given as 1326, but possibly 1350 is nearer the See also:mark. He was a painter and mosaicist, trained by his father, and a merchant as well; in See also:middle See also:age he settled down to commercial life in Venice, and he added greatly to the See also:family See also:wealth. He died in Florence in See also:October 1396. His paintings show much early promise, hardly sustained as he advanced in life. One of the earliest, at S. Jacopo tra' Fossi, Florence, represents the " Resurrection of See also:Lazarus." Another probably youthful performance is the series of frescoes of the Pieve di Prato—legends of the Virgin and of her Sacred See also:Girdle, bestowed upon St See also: GIOVANNI GADDI, See also:brother of Agnolo, was also a painter of promise. He died See also:young in 1383. Vasari, and Crowe and Cavelcaselle can be consulted as to the Gaddi. Other notices appear here and there—such as La Cappella de' See also:Rinuccini in S. Croce di Firenze, by G. Ajazzi (1845). (W. M. 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