"Simone Martini (c. 1284 – 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena.He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style.
It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St. Peter´s Basilica, Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini´s brother-in-law was the artist Lippo Memmi. Very little documentation of Simone´s life survives, and many attributions are debated by art historians." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.05.2020)
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