Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi (1447–1500) was an Italian painter and sculptor of the early-

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period in

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. He was a student of

Vecchietta Lorenzo di Pietro (1410 – June 6, 1480), known as Vecchietta, was an Italian Sienese School painter, sculptor, goldsmith, and architect of the Renaissance. He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's ''Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, ...

, and then he shared a workshop with

Francesco di Giorgio Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms ...

from 1468. He painted ''Scenes from the life of St Benedict'', now in the

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, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and ''Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard'', which is in the Pinacoteca Nazionale of Siena. In 1472 he painted an ''Assumption'' for the abbey of

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, 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 ''Madonna and Child with St Michael and St Bernardino'' is a 1476 tempera and gold on panel triptych by Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. To the left is St Michael, whilst to the right is Bernardino of ...

'', 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