GAERON His best works are in the Church of San Francesco di Paola, Messina, and in the Pa- lazzo Borromeo, Padua. GABRON, GUILIAM (Willem), horn at Antwerp, Oct. 28, l(ili), died there, Aug. 2, 1(178. Flemish school ; still-life painter, instructed probably by liis father ; master of the guild in lf>41 ; visited Italy, spending several years in Rome, whence he returned before lf>f>0. Works : Table with Turkish Cover, Parrot, etc. (1052), Brunswick Mu- seum ; Table spread (?, attributed by Bode to Heda), Old Piuakothek, Munich; Similar ^ >aJ> subjects in Darmstadt Museum (2) and Aschaft'enburg Gallery. Bode, Studieu, (ilfi; Itooses (Keber), 427 ; Van den Branden, in*;. GADPI, AGNOLO, died in Florence, Oct., HV.Hi. Florentine school ; son and pupil of Taddeo Gaddi, and like him a fol- lower of Giotto. His early labours were in the church of S. Jacopo tra' Fossi, Florence, where the liaising of Lazarus was treated, according to Vasari, in an exceedingly real- istic manner ; but he must, have changed his style, as there are no traces of such realism in his later frescos. Those in the parish church of Prato (13fi5), a double series, at the ends of a central aisle, representing the legends of the Virgin and tho sacred girdle, are the best and probably the earliest of his works. In them he was evidently guided by Giotto's maxims in regard to the compo- sition, and thej" are more perfect in balance and therefore more pleasing than any of Taddeo's. The figures also have more re- pose and dignity, and more nature and in- dividuality. The drawing is free and bold, though not always correct, and the colouring bright, clear, light, and transparent in its tones. But, though superior to Taddeo, Agnolo was inferior to Orcagna, and art in his hands had somewhat degenerated and become decorative. Other examples of Ag- nolo's work are eight frescos of the legend of the Cross, in the choir of S. Croce, Flor- ence ; and a Madonna, Angels, and Saints, Florence Academy ; Annunciation, Uffizi, Florence ; do., Louvre. C. & C., Italy, i. 4G3 ; Liibke, Gesch. ital. Mai., i. 148 ;' Va- sari, ed. Le Mon.,ii. 150 ; Seguier, 79; Bal- diuucci, i. 225 ; W. & W., i. 455. GADDI, GADDO, born in 1239, died in 1312. Florentine school. An intimate friend of Cimabuc, whom he survived twelve years. He laid the foundation of a fortune which raised his family to the highest social dis- tinction. According to Vasari, he executed mosaics in the Baptistery, and in S. Maria del Fiore, Florence. In 1308 he was in- vited by Clement V. to Rome, and certain mosaics in S. Maria Maggiore are assigned to him. They are more modern in style than Rusutti's mosaic in the same church, and mark the transition between Cimabue and Giotto. Vasari says that he painted many easel pictures, and he probably took part in the decoration of the upper church of Assisi. C. & C., Italy, i. 229 ; Vasari, ed. Mil., i. 345 ; Baldinucci, i. 89. GADDI, TADDEO, born about 1300, ^ died after 1300. Flor- ) entine school ; son and
pupil of Gaddo Gadd i,
and godson and dis- j) ciple of Giotto, with whom he worked twenty-four years. After the death of his master he was consid- ered the first in his art, which, however, but dimly reflected that of Giotto. His artistic career began when Giotto went to Naples, at which time (1352-50) he painted the frescos of the legend of the Virgin 1 assigned to him in the Baroncelli chapel in | S. Croce, Florence. These show that he had little fancy, and that his execution was rapid, decorative, and conventional. Remains of other frescos by him are in S. Francesco, Pisa. A Madonna with Donors and Saints, 103
