Andrea da Firenze

Andrea di Bonaiuto da Firenze was an Italian painter who brought a distinctive softness to the traditional fresco techniques of 14th-century Florence. Active from 1343, he emerged from the artistic circle of Andrea di Cione's workshop, absorbing the grand narrative style that dominated Florentine painting in the generation after Giotto. Andrea's masterwork is the extraordinary fresco cycle in the Spanish Chapel (Cappellone degli Spagnoli) at Santa Maria Novella, where he cre…