Lorenzo di Niccolò

Lorenzo di Niccolò was active in Florence from 1391 to 1412. 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, Lorenzo di Niccolò painted some frescoes in the Chapterhouse in San Francesco (Prato) and the panel "Coronation of the Virgin", once in Santa Felicita, but now in the Gallerie Fiorentine. A slightly later work, dated to 1409 in the "predella", and originally destined for the Medici Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence, today is split between the Florentine Galleries and the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan.¹

¹ Sandrina Bandera, "Lorenzo di Niccolò," in "Museo Bagatti Valsecchi", Vol. I, Milano: Electa, 2003, p. 218