Giusto de' Menabuoi
Giusto de' Menabuoi (c. 1320–1391) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence. • Illustration — Paradise, Padua Baptistry's frescoed dome, detail (1375–1378) • Illustration — Cappella del beato Luca Belludi Sant'Antonio (Padua) He was likely a pupil of Giotto but this is not definitive.
Also recorded as Giusto Fiorentino · Justus of Padua · Giusto de' Menabuci · Giusto Di Giovanni De' Menabuoi
Giusto de' Menabuoi

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- painter
- Known for
- The Coronation of the Virgin and and Other Scenes
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Giusto de' Menabuoi (c. 1320–1391) was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence. • Illustration — Paradise, Padua Baptistry's frescoed dome, detail (1375–1378) • Illustration — Cappella del beato Luca Belludi Sant'Antonio (Padua) He was likely a pupil of Giotto but this is not definitive.
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De' Menabuoi was known for his use of colour and became a court painter for Da Carrara. His style was individual, with no links to the realism of his contemporaries Altichiero and Jacopo d'Avanzi, and he had no influence on the later development of Venetian painting. In Lombardy he executed a fresco of the Last Judgement in the Abbey of Viboldone, Milan and some frescoes, now very ruined, preserved inside the porch of the Visconti Castle of Pavia. He then moved to Padua where he completed frescos in the Church of the Eremitani, the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua and most notably at the Baptistery of the Padua Duomo. Between 1375 and 1378 he undertook decoration of the Padua Duomo Baptistery, for Fina Buzzaccarini, wife of Francesco I da Carrara, who planned to use the building as the family mausoleum. Diverging from his earlier work, the frescoes show Romanesque and Byzantine influences, such as in the dome, where a Christ Pantocrator is surrounded by a geometric pattern of angels and saints. Menabuoi died in Padua and his burial site was re-discovered outside the Baptistry.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Padua. Works named in the authority record are The Coronation of the Virgin, and Other Scenes. Work by Giusto de' Menabuoi is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, National Gallery and Georgia Museum of Art.
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Padua Baptistry, frescos by Giusto de' Menabuoi (consecrated 1281)
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Padua Baptistry, frescos by Giusto de' Menabuoi (consecrated 1281)
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1330
Giusto de' Menabuoi born at Florence.
1390
Giusto de' Menabuoi died at Padua.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q595354: Giusto de' Menabuoi
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- “Giusto de' Menabuoi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1026817978, Giornata di Studio "Da Guariento a Giusto de' Menabuoi - Studi, Ricerche e Restauri" (2011 : Padua).
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1026817978, Giornata di Studio "Da Guariento a Giusto de' Menabuoi - Studi, Ricerche e Restauri" (2011 : Padua).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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