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(3) Giovanni Gaddi
( fl 1362–85). Son of (2) Taddeo Gaddi. He undoubtedly trained in his father’s shop, where he must have assumed an important position before the latter’s death in 1366. He appears to have had a role in running his father’s affairs during the last years of Taddeo’s life when, beginning in 1363, he is mentioned as making tax payments for him, while from 1362 he had a separate account with the Florentine Monte Comune, in which he had invested almost as much as his father. He is first recorded as a painter in 1369, when he was working in the Vatican in the company of Giovanni da Milano and one ‘Iocti’, identified as Giottino. By then, as the heir to his father’s shop, Giovanni must have had a certain prominence. Nevertheless, he enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali only on 5 April 1372. His name, usually along with those of his brothers, appears in Florentine tax records of 1378, 1379 and 1385.
Part of the Gaddi (i) family
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