Giovanni Bonsi (painter)

[1] In the Libro della Sega, the surviving tax register for 1351–1352, Bonsi's liability places him among the richest hundred persons in his quarter.

In 1366, with the painters Orcagna and Andrea di Bonaiuto, he was appointed to a committee charged with making proposals for the construction of the new cathedral of Florence.

[1] Bonsi was long neglected in studies of Florentine painting and considered a minor follower of Orcagna.

Federico Zeri first drew attention to the quality of his work and its anticipation of International Gothic in 1964.

Zeri identified a triptych, now divided between museums in Denver and San Diego, and a tabernacle by Bonsi.