MARIOTTO DI CRISTOFANO

The figure of this painter who comes from Valdarno is strictly related to that of Masaccio. Mariotto was born in San Giovanni around 1395 and was brother-in-law of the great painter, because he married his sister Caterina, daughter of his mother’s second marriage. Mariotto was just a child when he moves in Florence and he has already remembered in 1429 as “Dipintore” of a certain reputation. He attends the workshop of Bicci, di Lorenzo and he also knows the works of art of Giovanni Toscani and Arcangelo of Cola from Camerino.

Mariotto painted boards at the boundary between tradition and renewal, in that border area between classical setting and new renaissance results: “La Pietà e i Santi” in the Church of Carda in Casentino is one of his major results. As well as the “Christus patiens” (1420-25) coming from the Church of S.Lucia in San Giovanni, preserved now in the Museum of Basilica: a not very Florentine but Nordic matrix iconography (the theme of the Holy Blood belongs to the popular traditions of North Europe).
Another work preserved in the Museum of Basilica is the “Madonna in trono e Santi”, coming from the Church of S.Lorenzo (1453).

MASACCIO

Tommaso di Giovanni Cassai, better known as Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, 1401- Rome, 1428), arrives very young in Florence and enters the circle of his compatriot Masolino da Panicale.

MASOLINO

Masolino formed himself by working at the north door of the Florentine Baptistery with Ghiberti. Sensitive to the perspective revolution of the fifteenth century.

MARIOTTO DI CRISTOFANO

The figure of this painter who comes from Valdarno is strictly related to that of Masaccio. Mariotto was born in San Giovanni around 1395 and was brother-in-law of the great painter.

LO SCHEGGIA

Giovanni of Ser Giovanni from Mone Cassai was Masaccio’s younger brother. He was born from Giovanni and Jacopa; surely influenced in the choice of his profession by his grandfather Mone Cassaio.

GIOVANNI DA SAN GIOVANNI

Giovanni Mannozzi, known as Giovanni da San Giovanni (San Giovanni Valdarno 1592 – Florence 1636) was considered by his contemporaries an excellent teacher and fresco painter.

NICCOLO’ NASONI

Niccolò Nasoni (San Giovanni Valdarno 1691-1773) was a painter and internationally renowned architect who worked in Siena, Rome, Malta and, mainly, in Oporto, Portugal.

FRANCESCO FEROCI

The priest Francesco Feroci (San Giovanni Valdarno 1673-Florence 1750), was student of Giovanni Maria Casini and his successor in the position of first organist of the Cathedral of Florence.