Saints Clare and Francis by Simone Martini
Simone Martini (1284 – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. He was a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter's Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Very little documentation of Simone's life survives, but his most remarkable work are the frescoes in the San Martino Chapel in the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi.
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