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(1) Gaddo (di Zanobi) Gaddi
( fl 1312–30). He is recorded in the rolls of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali between 1312 and 1320. According to other documents, now lost, he was still alive in 1327 and 1330. Despite his connection with two of the most important painters in 14th-century Florence, Giotto and his own son Taddeo Gaddi, virtually nothing is known about Gaddo’s work. Whether he collaborated with Jacopo Torriti and Andrea Tafi ( fl 1300–25), as Vasari stated, is impossible to determine; attempts to reconstruct his work around a group of wall paintings in S Francesco, Assisi, where Torriti worked, are thus conjectural. An alternative interpretation of Gaddo’s oeuvre, based on another Vasarian attribution, the Coronation of the Virgin mosaic on the entrance façade of Florence Cathedral, is also conjectural but more credible. Around this latter work has been grouped a small number of panels, in style strongly reminiscent of Cimabue, including an exceptional Virgin and Child in S Remigio, Florence.
Part of the Gaddi (i) family
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