rked principally at Avignon in the service of the papal court, frescoing many of the rooms in the Palace of the Popes and the Abbey of Villeneuve. Deeply influenced by the Sienese Gothic style of \b \cf4 \ATXht1044 Simone Martini\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and the
\b \cf4 \ATXht1037 Lorenzetti\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 brothers, he developed a highly original language, marked by a great freedom of composition and a new tendency toward characterization of features and expressions that was inspired by his contact with the l
ively artistic circles of Avignon and Northern European Gothic culture.