Puccio di Simone
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Puccio di Simone was an Italian Gothic
Gothic art
Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that developed in France out of Romanesque art in the mid-12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, but took over art more completely north of the Alps, never quite effacing more classical...

 painter, active in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

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Biography

Puccio di Simone is also known as the Master of the Fabriano Altarpiece. He was a student of Bernardo Daddi
Bernardo Daddi
Bernardo Daddi was an early Italian renaissance painter and apprentice of Giotto. He was also influenced by the Sienese art of Lorenzetti....

 in Florence. He is mentioned between 1348 and 1357.

Work

Work by Puccio di Simone can be found in:
  • Ghent
    Ghent
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    , Belgium
    Belgium
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    : the Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
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     (The Crowning of Maria)
  • Avignon
    Avignon
    Avignon is a French commune in southeastern France in the départment of the Vaucluse bordered by the left bank of the Rhône river. Of the 94,787 inhabitants of the city on 1 January 2010, 12 000 live in the ancient town centre surrounded by its medieval ramparts.Often referred to as the...

    , France
    France
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    : Petit Palais
    Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
    The Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of Renaissance paintings of the Avignon school as well as from Italy, which reunites many "primitives" from the collection of Giampietro Campana...

    , ('Madonna)
  • Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

    , France: Montor Collection (Madonna with child)
  • Certaldo
    Certaldo
    Certaldo is a town and comune of Tuscany, Italy, in the province of Florence, located in the middle of Valdelsa. It is about 35 kilometers southwest of the Florence Duomo....

    , Italy
    Italy
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    : The Museum of Sacred Art (Polittico with Madonna and Saints)
  • Fabriano
    Fabriano
    Fabriano is a town and comune of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche, at 325 m above sea-level. It lies in the Esino valley 44 km upstream and SW of Jesi; and 15 km ENE of Fossato di Vico and 36 km east of Gubbio...

    , Italy: Pinacoteca (Saint Anthony, 1353)
  • Florence
    Florence
    Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

    , Italy: Accademia
    Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze
    The Accademia di Belle Arti is an art academy in Florence, Italy and it is now the operative branch of the still existing Accademia delle Arti del Disegno that was the first academy of drawing in Europe.-History:The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno The Accademia di Belle Arti ("Academy of Fine...

     (Triptych of Madonna with Saints Laurentius, Onuphrius, Jacobus and Barthomoleus)
  • Prato
    Prato
    Prato is a city and comune in Tuscany, Italy, the capital of the Province of Prato. The city is situated at the foot of Monte Retaia , the last peak in the Calvana chain. The lowest altitude in the comune is 32 m, near the Cascine di Tavola, and the highest is the peak of Monte Cantagrillo...

    , Italy: Galleria di Palazzo degli Alberti (Saint Lucia and Saint Catherine)
  • Vinci
    Vinci
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    , Italy: Church of Saint Giovanni Battista and Saint Ansano (Saint Ansano and two angels)
  • Washington D.C., USA: National Gallery of Art
    National Gallery of Art
    The National Gallery of Art and its Sculpture Garden is a national art museum, located on the National Mall between 3rd and 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW, in Washington, DC...

    (Madonna with angels and saints)

(Seattle,Washington )USA(Seattle Art Museum("Saint James Major")
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