place_of_birth martino di bartolomeo
The ( plural : "") is a basic administrative division in ___MASK80___ , roughly equivalent to a township or municipality . Duccio di Buoninsegna ( c . 1255  1260  c . 1318  1319 ) was an Italian painter , active in the city ___MASK3___ Siena in Tuscany , where he was born , in the late 13th and early 14th centuries . Taddeo di Bartolo ( c . 1363  26 August 1422 ), also known as Taddeo Bartoli , was an Italian painter ___MASK3___ the Sienese School during the early Renaissance . He is among the artists profiled in Vasari ' s biographies ___MASK3___ artists or " Vite ". Vasari claims he is the uncle ___MASK3___ Domenico di Bartolo . Painting is the practice ___MASK3___ applying paint , pigment , color or other medium to a solid surface ( support base ). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush , but other implements , such as knives , sponges , and airbrushes , can be used . Gothic art was a style ___MASK3___ medieval art that developed in Northern France out ___MASK3___ Romanesque art in the 12th century AD , led by the concurrent development ___MASK3___ Gothic architecture . It spread to all ___MASK3___ Western Europe , and much ___MASK3___ Southern and Central Europe , never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy . In the late 14th century , the sophisticated court style ___MASK3___ International Gothic developed , which continued to evolve until the late 15th century . In many areas , especially Germany , Late Gothic art continued well into the 16th century , before being subsumed into Renaissance art . Primary media in the Gothic period included sculpture , panel painting , stained glass , fresco and illuminated manuscripts . The easily recognizable shifts in architecture from Romanesque to Gothic , and Gothic to Renaissance styles , are typically used to define the periods in art in all media , although in many ways figurative art developed at a different pace . Simone Martini ( 1344 ) was an Italian painter born in ___MASK25___ . He was a major figure in the development ___MASK3___ early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development ___MASK3___ the International Gothic style . Domenico di Bartolo ( c . 1400 / 1404  1445 / 1447 ) was an Italian painter ___MASK3___ the Sienese School . ___MASK68___ is a region in central Italy with an area ___MASK3___ about and a population ___MASK3___ about 3 . 8 million inhabitants ( 2013 ). The regional capital is Florence (" Firenze "). The maritime republics ___MASK3___ the Mediterranean Basin were thalassocratic city - states which flourished in Italy and Dalmatia during the Middle Ages . The best known among the maritime republics are Venice , Genoa , Pisa , Ragusa , and Amalfi . Less known are Gaeta , Ancona , Noli . A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells , or that is designed to hold bells , even if it has ___MASK81___ . In the European ___MASK32___ , such a tower most commonly serves as part ___MASK3___ a church and contains church bells . Modern bell towers often contain carillons . Martino di Bartolomeo or Martino di Bartolomeo di Biago was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator active between 1389 and 1434 . He was one ___MASK3___ his generation ' s principal painters ___MASK3___ the Sienese School . From specific aspects ___MASK3___ his early style , he is believed to have trained in the studio ___MASK3___ Taddeo di Bartolo . As a young man Martino collaborated with Giovanni di Pietro da Napoli ( active 1402 - 1405 ) in Pisa . The fresco cycle in the church ___MASK3___ San Giovanni Battista di Cascina , outside Pisa , bears Martino ' s signature , and the date 1398 . He returned permanently to Siena in 1405 ; there he painted several prominent fresco cycles in the Duomo and the Palazzo Pubblico . Further official commissions for altarpieces and for polychromy ___MASK3___ sculptures attest to his versatility and to his prestige as one ___MASK3___ the city ' s official artists . Martino ' s early activity as an illuminator ___MASK3___ manuscripts is based on Luciano Bellosi ' s recognition ___MASK3___ his hand in the set ___MASK3___ choirbooks commissioned for the cathedral ___MASK3___ Lucca by its bishop , Niccolò Guinigi , in 1394 . When he contracted with the Collegiata ___MASK3___ San Gimignano for the polychromy ___MASK3___ the carved wooden Annunciation in 1420 , the sculptor , Jacopo della Quercia , stood guarantor . Jacopo ' s father , Pietro di Angiolo , worked in Martino ' s shop . ___MASK64___ is a city and " comune " in ___MASK68___ , Central Italy , on the Serchio , in a fertile plain near the Tyrrhenian Sea . It is the capital ___MASK3___ the Province ___MASK3___ ___MASK64___ . It is famous for its intact Renaissance - era city walls . Il Sodoma ( 1477  February 14 , 1549 ) was the name given to the Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Antonio Bazzi . Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style ___MASK3___ early 16th - century ___MASK31___ onto the traditions ___MASK3___ the provincial Sienese school ; he spent the bulk ___MASK3___ his professional life in Siena , with two periods in ___MASK31___ . Serchio ( in antiquity the " Auser ") is the third longest river in the Italian region ___MASK3___ Tuscany at , coming after the Arno at and the Ombrone , . By mean rate ___MASK3___ flow , it is the second largest , smaller than Arno but larger than Ombrone . The Tyrrhenian Sea (, , , ) is part ___MASK3___ the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast ___MASK3___ Italy . It is named for the Tyrrhenian people , identified since the 6th century BCE with the Etruscans ___MASK3___ Italy . The Province ___MASK3___ Pisa is a province in the Tuscany region ___MASK3___ central Italy . Its capital is the city ___MASK3___ Pisa . With an area ___MASK3___ and a total population ___MASK3___ 421 , 642 , it is the second most populous and fifth largest province ___MASK3___ Tuscany . It is subdivided into 37 " comuni ". With a history dating back to the Etruscans and Phoenicians , the province achieved considerable power and influence in the Mediterranean in the 12th and 13th centuries . Pisa , the provincial capital , is well known for its Leaning Tower which attracts tourists to the area with many historic landmarks . ___MASK80___ , officially the Italian ___MASK99___ , is a unitary parliamentary ___MASK99___ in Europe . Located in the heart ___MASK3___ the Mediterranean Sea , ___MASK80___ shares open land borders with France , Switzerland , Austria , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . ___MASK80___ covers an area ___MASK3___ and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in ___MASK80___ as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU member state . The Palazzo Pubblico (" town hall ") is a palace in ___MASK25___ , ___MASK68___ , central Italy . Construction began in 1297 and its original purpose was to house the republican government , consisting ___MASK3___ the Podestà and Council ___MASK3___ Nine . Ambrogio Lorenzetti ( or Ambruogio Laurati ) ( c . 1290  9 June 1348 ) was an exceptionally original Italian painter ___MASK3___ the Sienese school . He was active from approximately 1317 to 1348 . He painted " The Allegory ___MASK3___ Good and Bad Government " in the Sala dei Nove ( Salon ___MASK3___ Nine or Council Room ) in the Palazzo Pubblico ( or Town Hall ) ___MASK3___ Siena . His elder brother was the painter Pietro Lorenzetti . The Renaissance was a period in European history , from the 14th to the 17th century , regarded as the cultural ___MASK87___ between the Middle Ages and modern history . It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest ___MASK3___ Europe , marking the beginning ___MASK3___ the Early Modern Age . The Sienese School ___MASK3___ painting flourished in Siena , Italy between the 13th and 15th centuries and for a time rivaled Florence , though it was more conservative , being inclined towards the decorative beauty and elegant grace ___MASK3___ late Gothic art . Its most important representatives include Duccio , whose work shows Byzantine influence ; his pupil Simone Martini ; Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti ; Domenico and Taddeo di Bartolo ; Sassetta and Matteo di Giovanni . Unlike the naturalistic Florentine art , there is a mystical streak in Sienese art , characterized by a common focus on miraculous events , with less attention to proportions , distortions ___MASK3___ time and place , and often dreamlike coloration . In the 16th century the Mannerists Beccafumi and Il Sodoma worked there . While Baldassare Peruzzi was born and trained in Siena , his major works and style reflect his long career in ___MASK31___ . The economic and political decline ___MASK3___ Siena by the 16th century , and its eventual subjugation by Florence , largely checked the development ___MASK3___ Sienese painting , although it also meant that a good proportion ___MASK3___ Sienese works in churches and public buildings were not discarded or destroyed by new paintings or rebuilding . Siena remains a remarkably well - preserved Italian late - Medieval town . ___MASK8___ is a city in ___MASK68___ , Central Italy , straddling the River Arno just before it empties into the Tyrrhenian Sea . It is the capital city ___MASK3___ the Province ___MASK3___ ___MASK8___ . Although ___MASK8___ is known worldwide for its leaning tower ( the bell tower ___MASK3___ the city ' s cathedral ), the city ___MASK3___ over 90 , 834 residents ( around 200 , 000 with the metropolitan area ) contains more than 20 other historic churches , several medieval palaces and various bridges across the River Arno . Much ___MASK3___ the city ' s architecture was financed from its history as one ___MASK3___ the Italian maritime republics . The Province ___MASK3___ Lucca is a province in the Tuscany region ___MASK3___ Italy . Its capital is the city ___MASK3___ Lucca . Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi ( 7 ___MASK19___ 1481  6 January 1536 ) was an Italian architect and painter , born in a small town near ___MASK25___ ( in Ancaiano , " frazione " ___MASK3___ Sovicille ) and died in ___MASK31___ . He worked for many years with Bramante , Raphael , and later Sangallo during the erection ___MASK3___ the new St . Peter ' s . He returned to his native ___MASK25___ after the Sack ___MASK3___ ___MASK31___ ( 1527 ) where he was employed as architect to the Republic . For the Sienese he built new fortifications for the city and designed ( though did not build ) a remarkable dam on the Bruna River near Giuncarico . He seems to have moved back to ___MASK31___ permanently by 1535 . ___MASK22___ is the ___MASK63___ ___MASK3___ the Italian region ___MASK3___ Tuscany and ___MASK3___ the Metropolitan City ___MASK3___ ___MASK22___ . It is the most populous city in Tuscany , with 383 , 083 inhabitants , expanding to over 1 , 520 , 000 in the metropolitan area . ___MASK47___ Italy ( or just ) is one ___MASK3___ the five official statistical regions ___MASK3___ Italy used by the National Institute ___MASK3___ Statistics ( ISTAT ), a first level NUTS region and a European Parliament constituency .