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Cecco di Pietro was an Italian painter of the Pisan School. While his date of birth cannot be confirmed, there is some mention of a Cecco Pierri working with the painter Paolo di Lazzarino in 1350. If this was a reference to di Pietro, then his date of birth can be placed around 1330.〔“Cecco Di Pietro in Dizionario Biografico – Treccani”, n.d. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/cecco-di-pietro_(Dizionario-Biografico)/〕 He was active starting from around 1370 and died sometime before 1402. Cecco is seen as an important figure in Trecento art because of his development of a style that incorporated elements of Pisan painting along with those of the Sienese School. == Life and work == Early documents indicate that some of Cecco di Pietro's first work as an artist was restoring frescoes. He is first mentioned in notices from around 1370 as having worked at the Campo Santo with five other painters working on restoring frescoes in the area. He is next mentioned in notices from 1372 concerning the restoration of the ''Story of Job'' fresco in the Campo Santo with Francesco Volterra.〔van Marle, R., and C. van Marle. ''The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting''. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. M. Nijhoff, n.d. http://books.google.com/books?id=nMExAAAAMAAJ.〕 Records regarding his pay from the time show that it was a small sum of money when compared with other artists of the day, indicating that he was still inexperienced and learning the craft of the Pisan school from Volterra. Following the restoration of the ''Story of Job'', there is another notice of Cecco di Pietro being hired in 1379 to restore the ''Inferno'' from a trio of frescoes by Buonamico Buffalmacco which were also located in the Campo Santo and were apparently damaged by some untrained apprentices in a previous restoration attempt. Of the restoration of the ''Inferno'', most scholars only attribute the 2nd circle of Hell and two figures to the side of the Devil as the portions restored by Cecco, with the other restoration work carried out by a separate unknown artist. Cecco continued to receive a number of local commissions painting many altarpieces. One such altarpiece is the ''Polyptych of Agnano'', executed between 1386–1395 for the church and convent at Agnano, and is considered one of Cecco’s most important pieces. He continued to work in the fresco style until his death around 1402〔Multiple Sources from Crowe and Shapley as well as Galerie G.Sarti “Cecco Di Pietro, Gallery Giovanni Sarti”, n.d. http://www.sarti-gallery.com/site/paintings/artists/ceccodipietro/index.html?viewartist=59.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cecco di Pietro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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