Piero di Puccio

Piero di Puccio was a fourteenth-century Italian painter of the Gothic period, active mainly in Orvieto. He is also known as Pietro di Puccio. He painted a fresco of stories from Genesis, from the Creation to the Deluge on the North wall of Camposanto Monumentale in Pisa. The fresco was devastated during the allied bombing during World War II.

Cosmography Theological by Piero di Puccio, 1389-1391

References
  • Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 136.
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