Smeraldo di Giovanni (1365–1444) was an Italian painter of the late-Gothic through early-Renaissance period, active in Florence.
Biography He worked with Ambrogio Baldese in Orsanmichele in 1402.Rassegna d'arte antica e moderna, Volumes 4 Giovanni Dal Ponte by Carlo Gamba, Milan, December 1904, page 177. He is known to have been active in 1420, when he presumably worked in the same studio as Giovanni Dal Ponte (1385- c. 1438; thought to be the same person as Giovanni di Marco).The Burlington Magazine, Volume 9, Giovanni dal Ponte, by Herbert P. Horne, 1906, page 334. The Scali chapel of Santa Trinita in Florence has a fresco cycle by Giovanni dal Ponte and Smeraldo di Giovanni.
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