SIMONE CAMALDOLESE, Don
(active 1378-1405 in Florence)

Initial "A" from the Antiphonary (Choir Book 39)

1381
Tempera and gold on parchment
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

Along with Gherarducci, the other protagonist of the Camaldolese school of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli is Don Simone, native of Siena, and linked to the artistic traditions of his city. His work has been reconstructed on the basis of the initial "A" at the beginning of the Antiphonary dated 1381 and originally from the monastery of San Pancrazio, attributed to the artist in the explicit of the codex Choir Book 39.