CAPANNA, PUCCIO. - Painter; he was working in Florence in 1347, where he kept a workshop. Vasari recalls him as a pupil and assistant of Giotto in Assisi (perhaps between 1320 and 1330), considering him one of the finest masters of the time.
The frescoes on the vault of the Covoni chapel in the Badia and the Noli me tangere (Strozzi chapel) at S. Miniato are attributed to him, the latter a manifest repetition of Giotto’s work in the Arena chapel in Padua, as is his collaboration on Giotto’s Crucifix above the inner door of S. Maria Novella; in Assisi, some frescoes in S. Chiara and S. Francesco; and the decoration of the vault and the twelve Scenes from the life of St. Francis in the church of that name in Pistoia (1343); in
these, C. takes the Assisi cycle into account, displaying, together with some recollections of Sienese art, a new sensitivity to the value of light and shadow.