What is Coppo di Marcovaldo?
[[Image:Florentinischer Meister um 1300 001.jpg|thumb|250px|Coppo di Marcovaldo, ''Christ in Majesty'']] '''Coppo di Marcovaldo''' (c. 1225 &ndash; c. 1276)<ref>Frederick Hartt and David G. Wilkins. ''History of Italian Renaissance Art.'' Sixth Ed. (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2007), 45.</ref> was an artist who was born in [[Florence]] and worked in that part of [[Italy]] in the Late Medieval period. He painted large [[icon]]s of the [[Madonna and Child|Blessed Virgin Mary and Christ Child]], in the [[Byzantine]] style. His most famous work is the [[mosaic]] of the [[Last Judgement]] in the Baptistery of Florence. He also worked in the towns of [[Pistoia]] and [[Siena]]. There are only two paintings that are known to be by Coppo. One is in the Church of the Servants of Mary in Siena and the other is in the Church of the Servants of Mary in [[Orvieto]]. Another painting thought to be by Coppo di Marcovaldo can be seen in the Civic Museum in [[San Gimignano]]. ==Related pages== * [[List of Renaissance artists]] * [[List of Italian painters]] * [[Cimabue]] * [[Duccio]] * [[Pietro Cavallini]] * [[Giotto]] * [[Nicola Pisano]] ==Sources== * Diana Davies (editor), ''Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Art and Artists'', (1990), {{ISBN|0245546928}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcovaldo, Coppo di}} [[Category:1220s births]] [[Category:1270s deaths]] [[Category:13th-century Italian painters]] [[Category:People from Florence]]