Legend has it that he was a shepherd boy discovered by Cimabue while drawing some sheep on some rocks.
A story in Boccaccio's Decameron involves his finding it funny that he was so covered in mud that nobody would recognize him. He designed the freestanding campanile of Florence's Duomo, and one of his earliest paintings was a large crucifix in Santa Maria Novella. Legend has it that he was a shepherd boy discovered by Cimabue while drawing some sheep on some rocks. His masterwork is usually considered to be the fresco cycles in the Scrovegni, or Arena Chapel in Padua. He may also have painted the frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi depicting that saint's life. FTP, name this early 14th-century Italian artist, sometimes considered the first painter of the Renaissance.
A story in Boccaccio's Decameron involves his finding it funny that he was so covered in mud that nobody would recognize him.
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