Biography

Italian goldsmith and miniaturist. He was registered with the Guild of Goldsmiths in Perugia in about 1350. From about 1370, date of his first signed work, his workshop was the most active and the most sought-after in Perugia during that period. Although all his work as a goldsmith has been lost, many of his works of miniature, however, remain, especially his elaborate illuminations of the Perugia Statutes and Lists of the Guilds. The most well known amongst the works that made him famous are his illuminations in the Statute and List of the Guilds of 1377 for two of the most important town guilds, the Moneychangers and the Merchants.

In these works, his marked realism and narrative inclination enabled him to renew the iconography of the emblems of the town gates by replacing the simple scene of the protective saint with a more complex scene, that recalls the story of the saint, set in a background of views and landscapes that effectively portray fourteenth century life. His workshop also illuminated other Lists of Guilds in Perugia.