Puccio Capanna

Puccio Capanna, an Italian painter of the first half of the 14th century, mainly worked in Assisi, Umbria, Italy 1341-1347.

Vasari describes him as one of gelehrigsten pupil of Giotto and stipulates that the citizens of Assisi saw him as a fellow because he painted in the lower church of the Basilica of San Francesco for so long.

A document of 1341 testifies to the existence of a painter named Puccio di Capanna: a Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio were commissioned frescoes of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus ( Maesta ) and saints to paint in churches of Assisi ( Porta Bonaematris ( lost ) and the Porta Sancti Ruphini (portal of San Rufino ) ) Cathedral.

Puccio Capanna in Assisi is also mentioned again in 1347: sold an ox to the Sacro Convento ( Cenci, 1974).

Meanwhile, many no longer exist to him by Fra ' Ludovico da Pietrelunga (16th century) and Vasari attributed works.