Pietro
Cavallini

Pietro Cavallini (ital. Pietro Cavallini, about 1259-1344) was an Italian painter of the era of proto-Renaissance through. Lived and worked in Rome. Laid the foundations for a new direction in painting. The author of the mosaics (in the Church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, 1291) and frescoes (the Church of Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, approx. 1293). Sought to overcome the flatness of the forms and compositional structure inherent in the Italian painting of the XIII century, giving the images a volumetric plasticity. The art of Cavallini influenced Giotto and other young artists of Italy.

Helped the teacher with the mosaic decoration of the so-called Navicelli on the eve of St. Peter's Church. He is credited with mosaic, and the ornament on the tomb of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. For his piety of life he was considered Holy; according to tradition, the crucifixion of his work in the Basilica of San Paolo-Fuori-Le-Mura, near Rome in 1370 spoke to one Saint.