# 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._

4 works in the collection.

- [St. Catherine of Siena and the Beggar](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/st-catherine-of-siena-and-the-beggar-cma-142559), Giovanni di Paolo, 1460s. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Saint John the Baptist Entering the Wilderness](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/saint-john-the-baptist-entering-the-wilderness-aic-16156), Giovanni di Paolo, 1455–60. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago.
- [The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-creation-of-the-world-and-the-expulsion-from-paradise-met-458971), Giovanni di Paolo, 1445. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- [The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-annunciation-to-zacharias-verso-the-angel-of-the-annunci-met-458977), Giovanni di Paolo, ca. 1455–60. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.