Guidoccio cozzarelli biography for kids

Guidoccio (di Giovanni) Cozzarelli (b Siena, 1450; d Siena, 1516-17) was aainter and illuminator.

He trained in the workshop of Matteo di Giovanni, with whom he was associated from about 1470 to 1483 and with whom he is often confused.

Guidoccio cozzarelli biography for kids

Early illuminations for the Antiphonals of Siena Cathedral and a number of securely attributed paintings demonstrate Guidoccio's development of a fine, distinctive style that reflects Tuscan and northern European as well as Sienese influences.

A scene from an Antiphonal depicting a Religious Ceremony (Siena, Bib. Piccolomini), a fragment of an altarpiece depicting the Annunciation and the Journey to Bethlehem and a cassone panel depicting the Legend of Cloelia all combine masses of rusticated and Classical architectural structures into perspective vistas.

The dense cityscapes are played off against open sky and landscape, while porticos, gatewa