Grifo di Tancredi

Grifo di Tancredi (active 1271 - 1312) was an Italian painter, likely born in Florence. Little biographical history is known for this painter, and one existing work, a tryptich at the National Gallery of Scotland, has been attributed to him on the basis of inscriptions. He was active in Volterra by 1271, and later in Florence. He was previously cited as the Master of San Gaggio.[1][2]

Grifo di Tancredi's tryptich held by the National Gallery of Scotland

In 1271, Grifo rented a workshop in Volterra together with Filippo di Jacopo. He appears to have worked painting the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia in 1281. By 1295, he had moved to Florence, and enrolled in the painters’ guild can be placed in the period between 1297 and 1312. In 1303 he executed a now lost painting in the Palazzo Vecchio, commemorating a political event of the day. Grifo is considered a follower of Giotto.[3]

References
  1. Triptych at National Gallery of Scotland, depitcting Scenes from the Lives of the Thebaid Saints, and Scenes from the Passion of Christ.
  2. San Gaggio is a church in Florence.
  3. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, entry on painter.


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