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Piero (di Giovanni) di Puccio
( fl c. 1355–1400). Italian painter. The greater part of his career was spent in Orvieto, where he was recorded in 1364 as assisting Ugolino di Prete Ilario ( fl 1364–78) in the decoration of the Cappella del Corporale in the cathedral. Between 1364 and 1388 Piero received various other commissions from the cathedral, for frescoes, panels and work on the façade mosaics; none survives. Between 1389 and 1391 he was in Pisa, working on scenes from the Book of Genesis in the Camposanto. These frescoes, on which his reputation and all attributions rest, reveal a monumental figure style combined with a highly developed vein of naturalism. The numerous and well-observed nudes in the Story of Adam and Eve testify to both, and the design of this densely populated fresco is typical of his lively narrative gifts and his comparative lack of interest in spatial recession. The Story of Noah is characterized by a multiplicity of genre detail and an elaborately geometrical articulation of the composition.
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