All the oil paintings of GADDI, Taddeo

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ID	Image	Painting(From A to Z)	Details
6760		Allegory of the Cross sg	Panel Santa Croce, Florence
6754		General view of the Baroncelli Chapel sg	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
40137		Life of the Virgin	mk156 1300-66 c.1330 Fresco Baroncelli Chapel
64730		Life of the Virgin	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence Taddeo Gaddi, one of Giotto's pupils painted the Baroncelli Chapel in the church of Santa Croce in Florence around 1328, brilliantly employing the technical achievements of his teacher. His scenes for the Life of the Virgin were painted with two goals in mind. First, to compose the painting so that it corresponded to the form of the chapel bay, which was arched. Second, by means of the architecture of the painting itself, to create a sufficiently deep stage for the sequence of events to be played out. Gaddi came up with an ingenious solution for the upper section directly under the arch. He placed the architecture of the temple directly beside a cliff which looms up on the right so that in the the upper section a quatrefoil shape is created, an open space out of which he let an angel descend. This served to link the scenes Joachim Driven from the Temple and the Annunciation to Joachim. The sections below, with their alternating interiors and exteriors, appear as sets in front of which, and in which, the events take place. From the Meeting at the Golden Gate (top left) we move on to the Birth of St John the Baptist, the Virgin on her Way to the Temple, and finally the Betrothal to Joseph. As in San Francesco in Assisi, the architecture of the painting is closely linked to the architecture of the church, the continuous narrative to the way a viewer reads. Artist:GADDI, Taddeo Title: Life of the Virgin, 1301-1350, Italian , painting , religious
6755		Life of the Virgin (detail) sdg	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
6757		Life of the Virgin (detail) dfhh	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
6756		Life of the Virgin (detail) dwry	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
6763		Life of the Virgin dgss	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
6762		Life of the Virgin sg	1328-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
6764		Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels and Saints sd	1355 Tempera on wood, 154 x 80 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
6759		Presentation of Mary in the Temple dsg	1327-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
23294		Saint Eligius in the Goldsmith's Shop (nn03)	c 1365 Tempera on panel 35 x 39 cm 13 3/4 x 15 3/8 in Museo del Prado Madrid
6761		Stigmatization of St Francis s	Stained glass window Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence
29698		The Adoration of the Shepherds	mk67 Tempera on panel 18 7/8x16 15/16in
6758		The Angelic Announcement to the Sheperds fg	1327-30 Fresco Cappella Baroncelli, Santa Croce, Florence

GADDI, Taddeo
Italian Early Renaissance Painter, ca.1300-1366 Italian painter active in Florence. He was the son of a painter and mosaicist and a student of Giotto. His best-known works are frescoes in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. He directed a flourishing workshop for three decades, producing pictures in the style of Giotto but featuring more vivid picturesque effects with narrative detail. His son and pupil Agnolo (c. 1350 C 96) was an influential and prolific artist who likewise produced a notable series of frescoes for Santa Croce, The Legend of the True Cross