Spinello aretino biography for kids

Spinello Aretino (c.

– c. ) was an Italian painter, the son of a Florentine named Luca, who had taken refuge in Arezzo in when exiled with the rest of the Ghibelline party.

Spinello was a pupil of Jacopo del Casentino, a follower of Giotto, and his own style was a sort of link between the school of Giotto and that of Siena.

In the early part of his life he worked in Florence as an assistant to his master Jacopo while painting frescoes in the church of the Carmine and in Santa Maria Novella. Between and he was occupied in painting many frescoes in and near Arezzo, almost all of which have now perished.

After the sack of Arezzo in Spinello returned to Florence, and in with some assistants covered the walls and vault of the sacristy of San Miniato of Florence with a series of frescoes, the chief of which represent scenes from the life of Saint Benedict.

These still exist, though in a sadl