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Coppo di  Marcovaldo

1225-1274

Founder of the Sienese School

Florentine Italian Painter in the Byzantine Tradition

Education - apprenticed at age 10 to local Greek icon makers and later  a gold smith

Medium - Tempera and gold leaf on wood

Cause of death - unknown

Biography

Coppo di Marcovaldo was the Michelangelo of his day.

Famous for his Christian-themed painted icons with ecclesiastical figures often hovering above the Virgin Mary.  Coppo di Marcovaldo started life as a hard drinking soldier in the army of Florence.  The weary young veteran establish a home and studio in Siena after he was imprisoned following the bloody Battle of Montaperti. 

The brilliant artist was in great demand for his aesthetically pleasing masterpieces.  The church commissioned re