Giovanni di Paolo
Italian, 1398–1482
Born in Siena; died in Siena.
Giovanni di Paolo spent his long career in Siena, where he was one of the city’s leading painters through the fifteenth century. Holding to the Sienese tradition of gold grounds and graceful line, he created a highly personal world of slender figures, steep, patterned landscapes and vivid storytelling, seen in narrative panels such as Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness and The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise.
Written by Ochre Editions.
- In the collection
- 4 worksDated 1445–1469
- Mostly
- Paintings
- Movement
- RenaissanceEuropean art from about 1400 to 1600, when painters rediscovered perspective and the classical past.
