Gaddi

Gaddi, the name of three Florentine painters. (1) GADDO GADDI, born about 1259 at Florence, where he died about 1332. None of his paintings have survived, unless four of the frescoes in the upper church at Assisi are from his hand. Of his mosaics there remain specimens in S. Maria Maggiore at Rome.—(2) TADDEO GADDI, son and pupil of the preceding, was born about 1300 in Florence, and died there after 1366. A disciple of Giotto, he painted frescoes representing the life of the Virgin in the Baroncelli Chapel of the church of the Holy Cross at Florence; a triptych of the Virgin and Child, now at Berlin; another similar one at Naples; and other frescoes at Pisa and Florence. As a painter he possessed little original inspiration.—(3) AGNOLO GADDI, son and pupil of Taddeo, born about 1330, died in October 1396. At Prato he executed a series of frescoes depicting the history of the Virgin's Sacred Girdle, and in the church of the Holy Cross at Florence another series showing the history of the Cross. Besides these he painted some altarpieces. Later in life he settled at Venice, and devoted himself to commercial pursuits.