ABSTRACT
This chapter reconstructs and discusses the possible relationships between Santi Gucci and representatives of families active in Poland and Italy from the late fifteenth century—the Gucci and Tedaldi—while showing the potential influence of their professions and economic backgrounds in the artist’s further development. This chapter also describes the Kraków artistic milieu and the Italians who worked within it. This part discusses Santi Gucci’s first works, providing corrected dating of the Florentine’s key works as well as pointing to a previously unknown episode of the artist’s activity in Poland—his collaboration with Italian master Giovanni Maria il Mosca, known as Padovano.
