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Simone Martini (c.1284–1344) was a
Siena|Sienese painter who greatly influenced the
development of the International Gothic style, and
was a major figure in the development of early
Italian painting. Martini was likely a pupil of
Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna and his
brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very
little documentation survives regarding Simone's
life, and much of his career is subject to debate
by art historians. Simone Martini died while in
service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344.

Simone was doubtless apprenticed to Duccio, the
leading Sienese painter of the time, from an early
age. Among his first documented works is the
"Maestà" of 1315 in the Palazzo Pubblico in
Siena. A copy of the work, executed shortly
thereafter by Lippo Memmi in San Gimignano,
testifies to the enduring influence Simone's
prototypes would have on other artists throughout
the fourteenth century. Perpetuating the Sienese
tradition, Simone's style contrasted with the
sobriety and monumentality of Florence|Florentine
art, and is noted for its soft, stylized,
decorative feautures, sinuosity of line, and
unsurpassed courtly elegance. Simone's art owes
much to French manuscript illumination and ivory
carving, as examples of such art were brought to
Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the
Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route
from Northern Europe to Rome.

Simone's major works include the Maestà
(1315) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, St Louis
of Toulouse Crowning the King at the Museo di
Capodimonte in Naples (1317), the S. Caterina
Polyptych in Pisa (1319) and the Annunciation and
two Saints at the Uffizi in Florence (1333), as
well as frescoes in the Chapel of St. Martin in S.
Francesco, Assisi. Petrarch|Francis Petrarch
became friends with Simone while in Avignon, and
two of his sonnets make reference to a portrait of
Laura_%28person%29|Laura de Noves he supposedly
painted for the poet.

== External links ==
commonscat|Simone Martini
*http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collect
ions/13c-16c/discovered.asp Christ Discovered in
the Temple (1342) in
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/ The
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 
*http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/smartiannuE3
.html The Annunciation and two Saints (1333)
(Uffizi)

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Simone Martini (c.1284–1344) was a
Siena|Sienese painter who greatly influenced the
development of the International Gothic style, and
was a major figure in the development of early
Italian painting. Martini was likely a pupil of
Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna and his
brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very
little documentation survives regarding Simone's
life, and much of his career is subject to debate
by art historians. Simone Martini died while in
service of the Papal court at Avignon in 1344.

Simone was doubtless apprenticed to Duccio, the
leading Sienese painter of the time, from an early
age. Among his first documented works is the
"Maestà" of 1315 in the Palazzo Pubblico in
Siena. A copy of the work, executed shortly
thereafter by Lippo Memmi in San Gimignano,
testifies to the enduring influence Simone's
prototypes would have on other artists throughout
the fourteenth century. Perpetuating the Sienese
tradition, Simone's style contrasted with the
sobriety and monumentality of Florence|Florentine
art, and is noted for its soft, stylized,
decorative feautures, sinuosity of line, and
unsurpassed courtly elegance. Simone's art owes
much to French manuscript illumination and ivory
carving, as examples of such art were brought to
Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the
Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route
from Northern Europe to Rome.

Simone's major works include the Maestà
(1315) in the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, St Louis
of Toulouse Crowning the King at the Museo di
Capodimonte in Naples (1317), the S. Caterina
Polyptych in Pisa (1319) and the Annunciation and
two Saints at the Uffizi in Florence (1333), as
well as frescoes in the Chapel of St. Martin in S.
Francesco, Assisi. Petrarch|Francis Petrarch
became friends with Simone while in Avignon, and
two of his sonnets make reference to a portrait of
Laura_%28person%29|Laura de Noves he supposedly
painted for the poet.

== External links ==
commonscat|Simone Martini
*http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collect
ions/13c-16c/discovered.asp Christ Discovered in
the Temple (1342) in
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/ The
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 
*http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/Dipinti/smartiannuE3
.html The Annunciation and two Saints (1333)
(Uffizi)