Buonamico Buffalmacco

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Italian painter (c.1290-1340)

ArtistsLived 1262 to 1340 · aged 78

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Buonamico di Martino, otherwise known as Buonamico Buffalmacco, was an Italian Renaissance painter who worked in Florence, Bologna, and Pisa.

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17th-century engraving of Buffalmacco by Wenceslaus Hollar

From left to right: L'incontro dei tre vivi e dei tre morti ("The Three Dead and the Three Living")[1] and Trionfo della Morte ("Triumph of Death").[2][3] The latter fresco was painted between c. 1330s-1350 (disputed);[2] both are currently preserved in the Campo Santo of Pisa.[3]

Detail of Trionfo della Morte ("Triumph of Death"): three stylish young aristocrats mounted on fine horses encounter three coffin-encased corpses in differing stages of decomposition.[1]

Artists born in the 1260s 2

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Buonamico di Martino, otherwise known as Buonamico Buffalmacco, was an Italian Renaissance painter who worked in Florence, Bologna, and Pisa. Although none of his known work has survived, he is widely assumed to be the painter of a most influential fresco cycle preserved in the Campo Santo of Pisa, featuring The Three Dead and the Three Living, the Triumph of Death, the Last Judgement, the Hell, and the Thebais.