Bernardo Daddi
1290-1348
Florentine Early Renaissance Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters - Pietro Lorenzetti, Giotto and Maso di Banco
Education - apprenticed to Giotto
Cause of Death - The Great Plague of 1348
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About the Artist
Bernardo Daddi was one of the most original and imaginative Early Renaissance painters working in Italy. His greatness derives from eclecticism and the spirit of humanity that saturate his paintings. The Christ figure shimmers on the cross glorious against a background of gold, creating a mood of wonderment and mystery. His sensitive, lyrical style and ethereal-looking people generated steady, lucrative commissions until his untimely death of the plague in 1348. He is considered one the greatest Early Renaissance painters of all time.
A Society in Transition
The newly emerging painting techniques and styles were a reflection of the transformation that was taking place in Europe, the change from the medieval period to a more enlightened, tolerant society. According to Historian Hendrik van Loon, "People were tremendously alive. Great states were being founded. Large centres of commerce were being developed. High above the turreted towers of the castle and the peaked roof of the town-hall, rose the slender spire of the newly built Gothic cathedral. Everywhere the world was in motion. The high and mighty gentlemen of the city-hall, who had just become conscious of their own strength (by way of their recently acquired riches) were struggling for more power with their feudal masters. "Require more information about Bernardo Daddi in Art History? Type your query in art into the google search box below and poke around every nook and cranny of the known universe for information this subject.
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