Biography

Italian painter (also called Giovanni da Rimini), one of the principal artists of the Riminese school in the Trecento. He worked in Rimini where Giotto's fresco cycle, once thought to have depicted scenes from the life of Christ and now lost, strongly influenced the local school of painting. He interpreted in an original way the lessons of Giotto. His signed Polyptych with the Virgin and Child (1345) is in the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche in Urbino.