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Crowe and Cavalcaselle reject, not without reason, as it seems to me, the tradition that Simone painted the frescoes of S.Ranieri in the Campo Santo at Pisa.
See vol.ii.p.
83.
What remains of his work at Pisa is an altar-piece in S.Caterina. [154] To Simone is also attributed the interesting portrait of Guidoriccio Fogliani de' Ricci, on horseback, in the Sala del Consiglio. This, however, has been so much repainted as to have lost its character. [155] In S.Francesco at Pisa. [156] Spinello degli Spinelli was born of a Ghibelline family, exiled from Florence, who settled at Arezzo about 1308.
He died at Arezzo in 1410, aged 92, according to some computations. [157] South wall of the Campo Santo, on the left-hand of the entrance. [158] In the Sala di Balia of the public palace at Siena. [159] See _Inferno_, xxix.
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