Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early- Renaissance or Quattrocento period in Siena. He was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468. He painted ''Scenes from the life of St Benedict'', now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and ''Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard'', which is in the

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of Siena. In 1472 he painted an ''Assumption'' for the abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, and in 1475 he created a statue of Saint Catherine of Siena for the Sienese church dedicated to her. He separated from di Giorgio in 1475. In 1476, he painted '' Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino'', a triptych now located in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena.Gertrude Coor, Neroccio de' Landi 1447-1500, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1961, 235 p., 30 x 23 cm. In 1483, he designed the ''Hellespontine Sybil'' for the mosaic pavement of the

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, and the tomb for the Bishop Tommaso Piccolomini del Testa.

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''Italian Paintings: Sienese and Central Italian Schools''
a collection catalog containing information about Neroccio and his works (see index: ''Neroccio''; plates 66–67). 1447 births 1500 deaths 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian sculptors Italian male sculptors Painters from Siena Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub