Maso di Banco
Maso di Banco (working c 1335- 1350) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, who worked in Florence, Italy. He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic realism inaugurated by Giotto.[1]
Maso's name and work are known to us from Lorenzo Ghiberti's autobiographical I Commentari, which identifies frescoes in the chapel of the Holy Confessors at Santa Croce, Florence as his chief work.[2] The frescoes, not signed or dated but probably c 1340, represent scenes from the Life of St. Sylvester (Pope Sylvester I), the Last Judgment, and The Entombment.
His fresco of a particular judgment is in the Bardi banking family chapel of Santa Croce. It features Gualtiero de' Bardi pleading on behalf of his soul before Jesus Christ.
Nanni di Banco, a sculptor of the early 15th century, is not related to Maso.
Notes
- ↑ A World History of Art: Gothic Art.
- ↑ Giorgio Vasari confused Maso with Maso di Stephano, called "Giottino".
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Selected works
- at the Detroit Institute of Art there is a triptych.
- at the Brooklyn Museum there is also a portable altarpiece of the Madonna and Christ Child with Saints and Scenes From The Life of Christ.
- at the Budapest Museum of Fine Art there is a panel of The Coronation of the Virgin.