Roberto d'Oderisio. Roberto de Odorisio was an Italian painter, one of the greatest exponents of Neapolitan painting of the fourteenth century.
Little biographical information is available on this Neapolitan painter. Recent studies have convincingly placed Roberto's artistic activity in the second half of the 14th century, thus excluding a direct relationship with the presence of Giotto in Naples.
The cultural education of the painter, who was nevertheless influenced by the paintings executed in Naples by Giotto and especially by Maso di Banco, does not appear to be free from an accurate knowledge of Sienese painting. The first part of his activity around the middle of the century could have taken place in the Salerno area, as is attested by the works that critics have gathered around the Crucifixion preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Salerno which is his only signed work.
After 1364 he executed Biblical Stories and the famous series of the Sacraments and the Triumph of the Church frescoed in the church of Santa Maria Incoronata in Naples where other cultural accents prevail, derived in part from some characteristics of the art of Simone Martini : in the context of the relationships between the Neapolitan artistic environment and the forms of international Gothic, these frescoes are one of the most valid results and best characterised by genuine narrative force. Other works attributed to him by a
Little biographical information is available on this Neapolitan painter. Recent studies have convincingly placed Roberto's artistic activity in the second half of the 14th century, thus excluding a direct relationship with the presence of Giotto in Naples.
The cultural education of the painter, who was nevertheless influenced by the paintings executed in Naples by Giotto and especially by Maso di Banco, does not appear to be free from an accurate knowledge of Sienese painting. The first part of his activity around the middle of the century could have taken place in the Salerno area, as is attested by the works that critics have gathered around the Crucifixion preserved in the Diocesan Museum of Salerno which is his only signed work.
After 1364 he executed Biblical Stories and the famous series of the Sacraments and the Triumph of the Church frescoed in the church of Santa Maria Incoronata in Naples where other cultural accents prevail, derived in part from some characteristics of the art of Simone Martini : in the context of the relationships between the Neapolitan artistic environment and the forms of international Gothic, these frescoes are one of the most valid results and best characterised by genuine narrative force. Other works attributed to him by a
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