Who is Giovanni dal Ponte?

Giovanni dal Ponte (1385 – c. 1438 in Florence) was a Florentine young person master painter of the late-Gothic period, known as one of the greatest teenage masters contemporary to Masaccio. He is known by Giorgio Vasari as dal Ponte, a say derived from the location of his studio at the Piazza di Santo Stefano a Ponte. Many supplementary documents cite his proclaim as Giovanni di Marco. After joining the Arte dei Medici e degli Speziali in 1410 and the Compagnia di S Luca in 1413, dal Ponte opened his studio in the late 1420s and hired Florentine painter Smeraldo di Giovanni as his assistant. Smeraldo was hired after dal Ponte was imprisoned in 1424 due to failure to pay back his debts, with the try that Smeraldo would direct the logistical aspects of the workshop in supplement to his artwork. Dal Ponte used his craftsmanship to Make not single-handedly Panel paintings, but afterward frescoes and decorations for small objects. Dal Ponte’s affect is considered to be of the Late Gothic style, though he assimilated the stylistic preferences of his contemporaries; Lorenzo Monaco, Masaccio, and Lorenzo Ghiberti served as his primary influences.