Buonamico Buffalmacco

Buonamico Buffalmacco, actually Buonamico di Cristofano (* around 1262 in Florence, † 1340 ) was an Italian painter of the fourteenth century in Florence.

Buffalmacco was initially treated as a rather legendary figure of the artist, the anecdotal in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron ( VIII and IX day 3,5,9. 3 and day 5) and appeared in Franco Sacchetti novels. 1450 praised him, the sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti in his " Comentarj " and Giorgio Vasari dedicated to him in his biographies ( edition 1550 and 1568) a detailed chapter, with partially erroneous attributions. According Sacchetti ( amendment 191 ), he was a student and employee of the less important Florentine painter Andrea di Rico, called Tafo. With the opening of his own painting workshop he worked, according to Boccaccio together for years with the painter Bruno di Giovanni.

Well against 1314-15 frescoed Buffalmacco and Bruno the monastery church of Fortezza da Basso in Florence, as Vasari, with scenes from the life of Christ. 1320 Buffalmacco was summoned to Pisa, to paint the nave of the Abbey of S. Paolo a Ripe d'Arno. These frescoes are, like most of his work has been lost.

Not until 1920 that the first certain work was discovered by his hand: in the choir chapel of the Badia of Florence Church had obtained under a Whiting 4 of 12 murals with scenes of the Passion from the years 1330-40. Similar to Giotto frame multi-colored imitations of marble inlay in the way of Cosmati his scenes. His powerful, naturalistic style characterized him as a precursor of only around 1400 practiced painting of the " International Gothic " from.

That, in the opinion of individuals, Buffalmacco creator of the famous fresco The Triumph of Death from the Campo Santo, must be doubted, as the artist (as well as Vasari indicates ) already in 1340 had died, and the murals can be created according to the history of architecture assignment until after 1350. General today to write this work the Pisan painter Francesco Traini to.