Artist
Giovanni di Paolo
Italian, 1403–1482
Giovanni di Paolo was an Italian Early Renaissance artist. 59 works are cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art. Giovanni di Paolo was born in Siena.
Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia was an Italian painter, working primarily in Siena, becoming a prolific painter and illustrator of manuscripts, including Dante's texts. He was one of the most important painters of the 15th century Sienese School. His early works show the influence of earlier Sienese masters, but his later style was more individual, characterized by cold, harsh colours and elongated forms.
His style also took on the influence of International Gothic artists such as Gentile da Fabriano. Many of his works have an unusual dreamlike atmosphere, such as the surrealistic Miracle of St. Nicholas of Tolentino painted about 1455 and now housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, while his last works, particularly Last Judgment, Heaven, and Hell from about 1465 and Assumption painted in 1475, both at Pinacoteca Nazionale (Siena), are grotesque treatments of their lofty subjects. Giovanni's reputation declined after his death but was revived in the 20th century.
Works by Giovanni di Paolo
The Adoration of the Magi
The Presentation of Christ in the Temple
Madonna and Child with Two Angels and a Donor
Paradise
Saint Catherine of Siena Beseeching Christ to Resuscitate Her Mother
Saint Catherine of Siena Receiving the Stigmata
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agatha, and Margaret
Coronation of the Virgin
The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena
The Adoration of the Magi
Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit
The Adoration of the Magi
Saints Matthew and Francis
The Blessed Ambrogio Sansedoni (1220–1286)
The Annunciation and Expulsion from Paradise
The Blessed Andrea Gallerani (died 1251)
Saint Catherine of Siena Exchanging Her Heart with Christ
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena
St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar
Saint Clare rescuing the shipwrecked
The Crucifixion
The Investiture of Saint Clare: the Saint receiving the clothes of her Order from Saint Francis
Collections represented
- The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation
- The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise
- Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Barbara, Agatha, and Margaret
- Coronation of the Virgin
- The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Predella Panel from an Altarpiece: St. Catherine of Siena Invested with the Dominican Habit
- The Adoration of the Magi
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