Lorenzo di Niccolò

Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb, 1410 - 1414, tempera and tooled gold on poplar, 33 × 36 cm, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA.

Lorenzo di Niccolò or Lorenzo di Niccolò di Martino was an Italian painter active in Florence from 1391 to 1412.

Biography

Often erroneously cited as the son of Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, with whom he realized some works, this artist transformed his style from one more reminiscent of Giotto to one more elegant and linear, similar to that of such artists as Lorenzo Monaco. Together with Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, he painted some frescoes in the Chapterhouse of the convent of San Francesco (Prato) and the panel Coronation of the Virgin, once in Santa Felicita. A slightly later work on the same subject for the Medici Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence, dated to 1409 in the predella, today is split between its original location and the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan.

The painting of the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Sts. Christopher, Blaise, Sebastian, and Francis (c. 1410-1412) is exhibited in the St Louis Museum of Art. Two salvers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were attributed to the Studio of Lorenzo di Niccolò by the art historians, Elizabeth Gardner and Federico Zeri; the subject of the works has been proposed to be a story from Boccaccio's Comedia delle Ninfe Fiorentine.

External Links

• Italian Paintings: Florentine School, a collection catalog containing information about di Niccolo and his works (see pages: 52-56).