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 GABRIELO— GADDI. 67 was compelled to leave bis native coun- try, and he prosecuted his studies at Rome, under Pietro da Oortona, and at Venice with Maroli. He also resided at Padua, where, in collections, are still preserved several of his works. There are also several in San Francesco di PaolEk, and in San Paolo delle Monache at Messina. He was clever in the treatment of accessories; but all he earned by painting, he wasted in re- searches in alchemy. {Hackert,) GADDI, Agnolo, b. about 1326, living 1390. Tuscan School. The son and pupil of Taddeo Gaddi, whose style and that of Giotto he imitated; he ex- celled in colour and general execution, bat he was inferior to both in expres- sion, and to his father in design. He established a Commercial House at Ve- nice, in which he placed his sons, and added greatly to the wealth inherited from his father. He was the master of Cennino Cennini, the author of one of the earliest treatises on painting (1437). Works, Prato, Cathedral, Chapel of the Holy Girdle, thirteen frescoes from the Life of the Virgin (about 1350). Florence, Sta. Croce (the choir), the history of the Holy Gross. Berlin Mu- seum, Virgin and Child, with Saints ; St. Laurence and St. Catherine. {Vasari.) GADDI, Gaddo, b. at Florence, 1239, d, 1312. Tuscan School. A painter and mosaic worker, but no picture by bim is preserved. He was the assistant of Tafi, and the friend and companion of Cimabue, and acquired a great re- putation by his mosaics, some of which are still in a good state of preservation, both at Florence and at Rome. Gaddi was invited to Rome by Clement V., in 1308, and, besides many original works, completed the mosaics left unfinished by Jacopo da Turrita. His design was after the conventional Byzantine type, as exemplified in one of his mosaics, in the Uffiag, which is formed entirely of egg-shells; it represents a half-length of the Saviour, with a book in his hand, and the Greek form of the monagram, IC. XC. Works, Florence, the dome of the Baptistery of San Giovanni (xmder Andrea Tafi), some subjects: chief portal of the cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore (the interior lunette). Coro- nation of the Virgin. Rome, Santa Maria Maggiore, mosaics on the facade. Pisa, cathedral, the Assumption of the Virgin. {Vasari.) GADDI, Taddeo, b. at Florence, 1300, living in 1366. Tuscan School. He was the son of Gaddo Gaddi, and the godson and pupil of Giotto, with whom he lived twenty-four years, and he became the most eminent of that painter's numerous scholars. Taddeo enlarged upon the style of Giotto, but still adhered to the formal symmetrical disposition of his figures. In expres- sion he was at least equal to Giotto. In form he was much fuller; he was cer- tainly remarkable for the simplicity and dignity of his compositions, for natural truth, and a positive grace of motive in some instances. He was the best drafts- man of his age or century, and Vasari already expressed the opinion that there is greater vivacity and freshness in the colouring of Taddeo than in that of Giotto. He was a great architect as well as a painter; he built the Ponte Vecchio (1342), and the old Ponte della Trinita, which was destroyed by the flood in 1557 ; and he constructed also the Campanile of Florence, after a design by Giotto. He amassed great wealth, and was the founder of the Florentine ' family of the Gaddi. Works. Florence, Santa Croce, Last Supper, Giugni (formerly Barroncelli) Chapel, subjects from the Life of the Virgin: Academy, the Coronation of the Virgin: Santa Maria Novella, Capella degli Spagnuoli. Pisa, Campo Santo, Virgin and Child (formerly in V 2