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Capanna, Puccio
( fl Assisi, 1341–7). Italian painter. Vasari described him as one of Giotto’s most important pupils, but he identified him with the painter Puccio di Simone who is documented in Florence, although he included among the works attributed to this artist numerous paintings in Assisi and noted that the inhabitants of Assisi considered him to be a fellow citizen. A document of 1341, however, confirms the existence of an Assisi painter named Puccio di Capanna: the authorities commissioned ‘Puccius Cappanej et Cecce Saraceni, pictores de Assisio’ to paint images of the Virgin and Child with Saints on the ‘Porta externa platee nove’ and the ‘Porta Sancti Ruphini’ (see Abate). Puccio Capanna is also documented in Assisi in 1347 (Cenci).
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