Taddeo di Bartolo

Italian painter of the Sienese School during the early Renaissance. Created frescoes and painted with tempera and oil on panels.

Taddeo di Bartolo was born in Siena. The exact year of Taddeo di Bartolo's birth is unknown. Around 1389 he entered the Sienese Guild of artists, where he mastered the art of painting. In 1389 Taddeo traveled to Collegarli, the San Miniato al Tedesco hills, and Pisa. The painting of The Virgin and Child Enthroned, signed and dated in 1390 and created the church of San Paolo in Pisa, is one of Taddeo’s first documented works. In 1393, Taddeo traveled to San Gimignano, where he executed the altarpiece of the Virgin and Child and Saints (1395) for the Sardi and Campigli Chapel in San Francesco. From 1400-01, Taddeo worked at the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena where he created twelve small panels, of which only nine exist today, displayed at the Opera of the Duomo in Siena. In 1406, Taddeo was commissioned to destroy all the paintings in the chapel of the Palazzo Pubblico, and repaint the inside. Many of these paintings represent the Life of the Madonna, including the Death of the Virgin in which Jesus descends, takes her hand, and receives her in the form of an infant. In 1422 Taddeo di Bartolo died in Siena