TRAINI, FRANCESCO

(active 1321-1363)

Italian painter from Pisa. To him are attributed thefrescoes(1330s) in the Campo Santo adjacent to the Cathedral of Pisa depicting theTriumph of Death,an attribution questioned by some art historians who give the work instead to Buonamico Buffalmacco. Also attributed to Traini is theTriumph ofSt.Thomas Aquinasof c. 1340 painted for the Church of Santa Caterina in Pisa (some believe the work to have been painted byLippo Memmi) where the saint is shown receiving wisdom from Christ, theEvangelists, and the philosophers of the ancient world, includingPlatoandAristotle. Traini's only signed work is theSt.Dominic Polyptychin the Museo Nazionale, Pisa, dated to 1344-1345, a painting that shows St. Dominic with book and lily in hand, surrounded by scenes from his life.