Giottino

Giottino's father, Maestro Stefano Fiorentino, "Stefano the Florentine", was a celebrated painter in the school of Giotto whose naturalism earned him the appellation "Scimmia della Natura", the "Ape of Nature", for his perceived realism.

[1] The frescoes in the chapel of San Silvestro in the Florentine Basilica of Santa Croce are attributed to Giottino.

These frescoes represent the miracles of Pope Sylvester as narrated in the Golden Legend.

[1] Many other works have been attributed to Giottino including Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard and a marble statue erected on the Florentine campanile.

Giorgio Vasari, the chronicler of the Italian Renaissance, includes a biography of Giottino in the second part of his famous Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri).