Giovanni Toscani

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GIOVANNI TOSCANI
Known as: Giovanni di Francesco Toscani
and also as: The Teacher of the Griggs Crucifixion
(1370ca. - 1430ca.)

PERSONAL DATA

        Son of Francesco Toscani, was born approximately in 1372 in Florence (Italy), where Giovanni, lived in the Drago neighborhood, San Giovanni's district, according to the Catasto of Florence of the year 1427.

        Enrolled in the Company of San Lucas in 1424, although it seems to be that already in 1420, it figured in those registrations of the Company (Orlandí) .

        In 1423 and 1424 receives payments for the decoration of the Chapel Ardinghelli at Santa Trinitá (Florence, Italy).
        He describes himself as a painter of large chests (cofanaio) and he dies in Florence on May 2nd 1430.
He had the 55 year-old age in the year 1427, was family head, inhabited a housing that was own, he was married, and maintain apart from their wife other four mouths (children?).
        Among the data that figured in the Florentine Catasto, in what refers to his economic position it mentions the following things:

                * Private investments: 65 Florins

                * Public investments: 130 Florins.

                * Total fortune: it adds of deduced public and private investments the
                    value of his property: 189 Florins.

Great part of these data has been obtained of:

David Herlihy and Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Census and Property Survey of Florentine Domains in the Province of Tuscany, 1427-1480. Machine readable data file. Online Catasto of 1427 Version 1.1. Online Florentine Renaissance Re sources: Brown University, Providence, R.I., 1996.

http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/catasto/overview.html

HIS PROFESSION AND HIS WORKS:

His profession was the painting and he is known as the Teacher of the Griggs Crucifixion in reference to his work that it was a time in the Metropolitan Museum of New York (USA).

His style oscillates among a delicate language of an extreme Gothic, rich in archaisms and coming closer, vastly, to the work of Masaccio (Italian painter).

Notable in their production of profane type, as the large chests, for example, with Scenes of the Life in the Court (at the moment in the collection Kress in Washington D.C.) and other two large chests with delicious scenes of the "Palio of Firenze" (one of them in the Museum of Art of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) and the other one in the Museum of Bargello (Firenze, Italy).

Madonna with Child: Painting made on a chart with bottom gold, among 1422 -1423, at the moment in the Palazzo Vecchio (Firenze, Italy).
Triptico (Madonna with Child, Announcement, Crucified Christ, Aching, Pity and Angels): It tempers and gold leaf on wood panel, carried out among 1410 -1420 and at the moment it is in the Museo dello Spedale degli Innocenti (Firenze, Italia).
Angel: It tempers and gold leaf on wood panel, carried out among 1410 -1420 and at the moment it is in the Museo dello Spedale degli Innocenti (Firenze, Italia).
Pity: It tempers and gold leaf on wood panel, carried out among 1410 -1420 and at the moment it is in the Museo dello Spedale degli Innocenti (Firenze, Italia).
Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Madonna Annunciata: It tempers and gold leaf on wood panel, carried out among 1410 -1420 and at the moment it is in the Museo dello Spedale degli Innocenti (Firenze, Italia).
The magicians' adoration: At the moment in the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia) Visit it
Madonna wiht the Child: At the moment in the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia) Visit it
Chest from Edimburgh: At the moment in the National Gallery of Scotland at Edimburgh (United Kingdom) Visit it

Processione dei palii di S. Giovanni, stemma della famiglia Benci(?), stemma della famiglia Aldobrandini, Allegoria delle Virtú cardinali, Allegoria della Speranza: Colored on a carved wooden large chest and on one base of golden pasta, carried out among 1425 -1429 and at the moment it is in the Museum Nazionale del Bargello (Florence, Italy). This is a precocious but typical example of a class factories very diffused in the " Quattrocento " (XV century) Florentine whose destination is the one of containing the matrimonial trousseaus of the tall youths - bourgeois. In general the figurative topics of those large chests are mythological, but developed in the way anticlasic of the contemporary chronicle.

Incredulity of St. Thomas Apostle: Painting made on a chart with bottom gold, among 1419 -1420, at the moment in the Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Italy).

St. Francis of Assisi receives the stigmas, St. Nicola of Bari it calms a marine tempest: Painting made on a chart with bottom gold, among 1423 -1424, at the moment in the Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Italy).

Madonna with Child and Saints: Painting made on a chart with bottom gold, among 1423 -1424, at the moment in the Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Italy).

Cristo Crocifisso

Crucified Christ with aching and angels: Painting made on a chart with bottom gold, among 1423 -1424, at the moment in the Galleria dell'Accademia (Florence, Italy).

Crucifixion: It tempers on wood of 63 x 42 cms. painted 1350 circa, in the Lowe Museum, Coral Gables (USA)
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Scenes of life and passion of Saint John

Crucifixion with scenes from life and passion of Saint John: It tempers on wood, painted 1350 circa, in the Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis (USA)
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Madonna with Child: If you want to see the enlarged picture press on the same one.

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He had the 55 year-old age in the year 1427, was family head, inhabited a housing that was own, he was married, and maintain apart from their wife other four mouths (children?).