PIERO di PUCCIO. - Umbrian painter, concerning whom little information is available. A document records him as an assistant to Ugolino di Prete Ilario in 1360 and in the following years, 1362-64, at Orvieto.
Here he carried out most of his activity as a painter and mosaicist. The mosaic on the façade of the Duomo, signed and dated, is his: «Petrus de Puti de Urbe Vetere me fecit anno MCCCLXXVI»; it is further known that he was master of the Workshop of Mosaic and Painting for the year 1381. Around 1389-90 he was called to work in the Camposanto of Pisa, where he executed the Stories of Adam and Eve, Stories of Cain and Abel, and Stories of Noah, which were damaged during the recent war events. His style, harsh and provincial in these works, nevertheless enabled him in some scenes to achieve effects of remarkable grandeur, revealing Giottesque influences. Having returned to Orvieto in 1383, he painted a Resurrection in fresco on the Clock Tower. The last information concerning him dates from 1394, on the occasion of certain drawings supplied for a cross, now in the Duomo.