Editing Simone Martini (section)

{{short description|Italian painter from the 14th century (1284–1344)}}
{{Infobox artist
| image = Simone Martini - Frontispice du Virgile.jpg|
| caption = ''[[Petrarch]]'s Virgil (title page)'' ({{Circa|1336}}) <br />Illuminated manuscript, 29,5&nbsp;x 20&nbsp;cm <br />Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
| name = Simone Martini
| birth_name = Simone Martini
| birth_date = {{circa|1284}}
| birth_place = [[Siena]], [[Republic of Siena]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1344|7||1284}}
| death_place = [[Avignon]], [[Comtat Venaissin]], [[Papal States]]
| nationality = Italian
| field = [[Painting]], [[Fresco]]
| training = [[Duccio|Duccio di Buoninsegna]]
| movement = [[International Gothic]]
| works = ''[[Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus]]''
}}

'''Simone Martini''' ({{circa|1284}} – July 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|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|Giotto di Bondone]], with whom he went to Rome to paint at the [[Old St. Peter's Basilica]], Giotto also executing a mosaic there. Martini's brother-in-law was the artist [[Lippo Memmi]]. Very little documentation of Simone's life survives, and many attributions are debated by art historians. According to E. H. Gombrich, he was a friend of Petrarch and had painted a portrait of Laura.