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{{short description|Italian painter from the 14th century (1284–1344)}}
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▲| caption = ''[[Petrarch]]'s Virgil (title page)'' (c. 1336) <br>Illuminated manuscript, 29,5 x 20 cm <br>Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
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▲| birth_name = Simone Martini
▲| birth_date = {{circa|1284}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|1344|7||1284}}
▲| birth_place = [[Siena]], [[Republic of Siena]]
▲| death_place = [[Avignon]], [[Kingdom of France]]
| field = [[Painting]], [[Fresco]]
▲| nationality = Italian
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▲| works = The Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Asano
'''Simone Martini''' ({{circa|1284}} – July 1344) was an
He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the [[International Gothic]] style.
It is thought that Martini was a pupil of [[Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna]], the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer [[Giorgio Vasari]], Simone was instead a pupil of [[Giotto|Giotto di Bondone]], with whom he went to Rome to paint at the [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]], Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini's brother-in-law was the artist [[Lippo Memmi]]. Very little documentation of Simone's life survives, and many attributions are debated by art historians. According to E. H. Gombrich, he was a friend of Petrarch and had painted a portrait of Laura.
==Biography==
Simone was doubtlessly apprenticed from an early age, as would have been the normal practice. Among his first documented works is the ''[[Maestà (Simone Martini)|Maestà]]'' of 1315 in the [[Palazzo Pubblico]] in [[Siena]].<ref
Simone's other major works include the ''[[
Simone also painted the [[Saint Catherine of Alexandria Polyptych]] in [[Pisa]] (1319) and the ''[[Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus]]'' at the [[Uffizi]] in [[Florence]] (1333), as well as frescoes in the [[Chapel of St. Martin|San Martino Chapel]]<ref name=EB1911/> in the lower church of the [[Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi]]. [[Petrarch|Francis Petrarch]] became a friend of Simone's while in Avignon, and two of Petrarch's sonnets (''Canzoniere'' 96 and 130) make reference to a portrait of [[Laura de Noves]] that Simone supposedly painted for the poet (according to Vasari). A ''Christ Discovered in the Temple ''(1342) is in the collections of Liverpool's [[Walker Art Gallery]].
Simone Martini died while in the service of the [[Avignon Papacy|Papal court]] at [[Avignon]] in 1344.
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==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Simone_Martini_and_Lippo_Memmi_-_The_Annunciation_and_Two_Saints_-_WGA15010.jpg|The ''[[Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus]]'', 1333
Image:Simone Martini 068+069.jpg|''[[Annunciation Diptych]]'', 1333
Image:Simone Martini 012.jpg|[[Pisa Polyptych|Saint Catherine of Alexandria Polyptych]], 1319
File:Simone Martini - Boston Polyptych.jpg|''Virgin and Child with Saints'' (Boston Polyptych), c.
File:Simone Martini 071.jpg|''The Miracle of the Child Attacked and Rescued''
File:Simone Martini - Christ Discovered in
File:Simone_Martini_-_Maestà_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|''[[Maestà (Simone Martini)|Maestà]]'', 1315, [[Palazzo Pubblico]], Siena
File:SIMONE_MARTINI_Maestà_(detail)_1315.jpg|Detail of the ''Maesta''
</gallery>
==See also==
▲* [[Memmo di Filippuccio]]
==Sources==
* {{cite book
| author=Vasari, Giorgio
|author2=translation by George Bull
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{{Commons category|Simone Martini}}
* {{CathEncy|wstitle=Simone Martini}}
* [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Frescos_by_Simone_Martini_in_the_Lower_Basilica_in_Assisi Frescoes by Simone Martini in the Lower Basilica in Assisi]
* [http://www.wga.hu/tours/siena/simone.html#outline Art of Simone Martini]
* [http://artpaintingartist.org/simone-martini-gothic-painter Simone Martini] – Gothic Painter
* [https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1875.html Simone Martini at the National Gallery of Art]
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