Grifo di Tancredi (active 1271–1312)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was likely born in Florence.
• One existing work is a triptych at the National Gallery of Scotland, has been attributed to him on the basis of inscriptions.
• He was active in Volterra by 1271.
• Later moved to Florence.
• He was previously cited as the Master of San Gaggio.

• In 1271, Grifo rented a workshop in Volterra together with Filippo di Jacopo.

• He appears to have worked on painting the Fontana Maggiore in Perugia in 1281.
• By 1295, he had moved to Florence, and enrolled in the painters’ guild sometime between 1297 and 1312.
• In 1303 he executed a now-lost painting in the Palazzo Vecchio, commemorating a political event of the day.
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