GADDI, Gaddo

Gaddo di Zanobi Gaddi, Italian painter and mosaicist, the father of Taddeo Gaddi. He is recorded in the rolls of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali and written about by Giorgio Vasari, a 16th-century biographer of artists, but his oeuvreGLOSSARYThe complete body of works created by an artist. is largely conjectural. Vasari said that he was associated with Cimabue and Giotto. He completed mosaics on façadeGLOSSARYthe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The Coronation of the Virgin mosaic over the inside door of Florence CathedralGLOSSARYThe principal church of a province or diocese, where the throne of the bishop is placed. For reasons lost to time and tradition, a cathedral always faces west - toward the setting sun. The altar is placed at the east end. The main body, or nave, of the cathedral is usually divided into one main and two side aisles. These lead up to the north and south transepts, or arms of the cross, the shape in which a cathedral is usually formed., dated 1307, is also attributed to Gaddo Gaddi.