Cleveland Museum of Art

Virgin and Child

Neri di Bicci

Date

c. 1460

Medium

tempera on wood panel

Culture

Italy, 15th century

Department

Medieval Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence, a pupil of Spinello Aretino. His journals from the years 1453-75, including the rates of remuneration for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. When cleaned in 1947, a modern hedge with orange trees was removed from the background of this painting.

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