Simone MARTINI (circa 1284 - 1344); or Simone Senese; Italian painter and miniature; one of the teachers of the Sienese school and the most influential and influential Italian artists of the 14th century. The portrait is enclosed in a frame decorated with caryatids holding the tools of art and an allegory of painting. Colored illustration on a 16th century xylographic basis; from the treaty 'Le Vite de' the most outstanding painters; sculptors and architects' by Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 - 27 June 1574); second enlarged and revised edition; Giunti; Florence 1568