Giovanni da Milano, active (1346–69)

• Also known as Giovanni di Jacopo di Guido da Caversaccio.
• Was an Italian painter.
• Vasari misidentified him as a student of Taddeo Gaddi, a noted Giotto protégé. 

• Hailing from Lombardy, the earliest documentation shows Giovanni in Florence on October 17, 1346, under the name Johannes Jacobi de Commo, listed amongst the foreign painters living in Tuscany.

• The latest extent documentation of Giovanni's career comes in 1369, when he is known to be working in Rome for Pope Urban V with Giottino and the sons of Taddeo Gaddi.
• Giovanni is known to be active in Florence and Rome between 1346 and 1369. 

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