Spinello Aretino (Spinello di Luca Spinelli), (1345–1410)

• Was an Italian painter from Arezzo.
• He was active in Tuscany at the end of the 14th and the first decennium of the 15th century.
• Spinello Aretino was the son of a Florentine named Luca.
• His actual name was Spinello Di Luca Spinelli but he was called 'Aretino' which means 'from Arezzo'.
• Spinello's style was a sort of link between the school of Giotto and that of Siena.
• In the early part of his life he worked in Florence as an assistant to his master Jacopo while painting frescoes in the church of the Carmine and in Santa Maria Novella.
• Between 1360 and 1384 he was occupied in painting many frescoes in and near Arezzo.
• In 1391-1392 Spinello was painting six frescoes, which still remain on the south wall of the Pisan Campo Santo, for these he received 270 gold florins.
• Aretino painted in 1407–1408 on the walls and vault of a chapel in the municipal buildings of Siena; these also have suffered much from repainting, but still are the finest of Spinello's existing frescoes.
• Spinello died in Arezzo about 1410. 
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