Spinello aretino biography samples

Italian painter (c.1350–c.1410)

Spinello Aretino^[1][2] (c. 1350 – c.

1410) was an Italian painter from Arezzo, who was active in Tuscany at the end of the 14th and the first decade of the 15th century.^[3] His style influenced the development of late 14th- and early 15th-century painting in Tuscany.^[4]

Life

Spinello Aretino was the son of a Florentine named Luca.

His family was active in the goldsmith trade and had taken refuge in Arezzo in 1310 when the rest of the Ghibelline party was exiled from Florence.

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His actual name was Spinello Di Luca Spinelli, but he was called 'Aretino' which means 'from Arezzo'.^[3]

In the past it was believed that Spinello was a pupil of Jacopo del Casentino, a follower of Giotto.

However, this is no longer accepted by art historians.^[5] Spinello's style was a sort of link between the school of Giotto and that of Siena. In the early part of his life he worked