Simone dei Crocefissi (about 1330 - 1399)

• Simone di Filippo Benvenuti, known as Simone dei Crocifissi or Simone da Bologna.
• Was an Italian painter.
• Born and died in Bologna.
• He was son of the shoemaker Filippo di Benvenuto.
• In the 17th century he was renamed "of the Crucifixes" (dei Crocifissi) for his "ability to paint great images of the Redeemer.
• He trained with Franco Bolognese.
• He was active as a painter at Bologna from 1354 to 1399.

• Painted many religious panel paintings, and also frescoes in the churches of Santo Stefano and San Michele in Bosco, both at Bologna.

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