(ca. 1250-after 1300)
One of the major painters of the late-medieval maniera greca (Byzantine manner) that dominated Italian art during the 13th century. His work Madonna Enthroned at Florence is a significant example of the adaptation of Byzantine artistic style to Italian taste. Renaissance artists believed that he was the master who trained Giotto, the late-Gothic painter whose work is commonly thought to mark the first great step toward the Italian Renaissance style of painting.
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance. Charles G. Nauert. 2004.