. . "1344Z"^^ . . . "1284Z"^^ . "Martini, Simone"@en . . . "Simone Martini"@en . "Italian painter" . "Simone Martini (c.\u20091284 \u2013 1344) was an Italian painter born in Siena. He was a major figure in the development of early Italian painting and greatly influenced the development of the International Gothic style. It is thought that Martini was a pupil of Duccio di Buoninsegna, the leading Sienese painter of his time. According to late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, Simone was instead a pupil of Giotto di Bondone, with whom he went to Rome to paint at the Old St."@en . . "Simone Martini"@en . . . . . . .