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Excerpt from Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexicon, Vol. 2: Leben und Werke der Beruhmtesten Bildenden Kunstler; Gaab Lezla
Ga'ddi, Gaddo, ital. Maler, geb. 1260 in Florenz, 1332, der Stammvater einer Malerfamilie, war vorzugsweise Mosaicist, wurde 1308 von Clemens V. Nach Rom berufen, wo er in der Art des ihm befreundeten Cimabue grosse Mosaikbilder aus fuhrte, von denen sich noch Bruchstucke in Sta. Mafia Maggiore erhalten haben; andere ihm zugeschriebene Werke dieser Art sind nicht beglaubigt.
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