Donato and Gregorio d'Arezzo (active 1315 - about 1340)

• Were Italian painters.
• Gregorio d'Arezzo and his brother Donato d'Arezzo are known only from the signature on a triptych dated 1315 in the cathedral of Bracciano near Rome.
• Bracciano is about 120 miles from their native town of Arezzo, an active center of art.
• Donato, Gregorio, and other painters of their generation were inspired by the styles of Duccio from Siena and Giotto from Florence.
• Both Duccio and Giotto had, in their own ways, broken from the Byzantine tradition of flatness and abstraction that had previously dominated Italian art.
• Their figures, more solid and sturdier than the ephemeral people in Gothic works, show Giotto's influence.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Donato and Gregorio d'Arezzo, St Catherine of Alexandria and Twelve Scenes from Her Life, c. 1330.
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