Coppo di marcovaldo biography of michael jackson

13th-century Florentine painter

Coppo di Marcovaldo (c. &#; c. )^[1] was a Florentine painter in the Italo-Byzantine style, active in the middle of the thirteenth century, whose fusion of both the Italian and Byzantine styles had great influence on generations of Italian artists.

Biography

Coppo di Marcovaldo is one of the better-known Duecento artists and is the first Florentine artist whose name and works are well documented.^[2] One of the earliest references to Coppo is found in the Book of Montaperti where his name is listed amongst Florentines soldiers for the war with Siena, which ended at the Battle of Montaperti on September 4, ^[3] It is speculated by many historians that Coppo was taken prisoner by the Sienese where he was then held at the church of Santa Maria dei Servi.

It was here in that he painted his most famous work The Madonna del Bordone for the order of the Servites. Assumed to be a prisoner of wa