He was a talented stonemason and sculptor who was skilled at duplicating classical Greek, Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artistic styles and such artists as Giovanni Pisano, Simone Martini and Donatello.
This sort of textile is represented in the clothing of the angel Gabriel in the Annunciation by Simone Martini (1333).
Simone's art owes much to French manuscript illumination and ivory carving: examples of such art were brought to Siena in the fourteenth century by means of the Via Francigena, a main pilgrimage and trade route from Northern Europe to Rome.
Nina Simone | Simone de Beauvoir | Simone Signoret | Pink Martini | Simone Weil | Simone Martini | Gail Simone | Carlo Maria Martini | Simone Perrotta | Ferdinando Martini | Simone Beck | Martini & Rossi | Mark Simone | Joy to the World (Pink Martini album) | Simone Young | Simone Veil | Simone Maludrottu | Simone Lovell | Simone Kermes | Simone Fernando Sacconi | Simone Dinnerstein | Simone Buchanan | Pierluigi Martini | Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir | Arturo Martini | Alberto Martini | Albert J. Simone | Steven Martini | Sleazy P. Martini | Simone Waisbard |
With his contemporaries, Simone Martini, Pietro Lorenzetti and Ambrogio Lorenzetti and others he is part of the generations following Duccio.
Portraiture was uncommon in the 14th and early 15th centuries, mostly limited to civic commemorative pictures such as the equestrian portraits of Guidoriccio da Fogliano by Simone Martini, 1327, in Siena and, of the early 15th century, John Hawkwood by Uccello in Florence Cathedral and its companion portraying Niccolò da Tolentino by Andrea del Castagno.
The first and second floors house the Galleria Nazionale (National Gallery), with paintings from the 13th to the 18th centuries including major works by Simone Martini, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Masaccio, Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgio Vasari, El Greco, Jacob Philipp Hackert and many others.