Niccolò di Tommaso (active 1346–1376) was an Italian painter active in

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

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and

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. He is documented as joining the Arte dei Medici e Speziali around 1346. He shows the influence of

Maso di Banco Maso di Banco (working ''c'' 1335–1350) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, who worked in Florence, Italy. He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic real ...

, but worked with

Nardo di Cione Nardo di Cione (died c. 1366) was an Italian Painting, painter, sculptor and architect from Florence. He was the brother of the more accomplished Andrea di Cione, called Orcagna, as well as Jacopo di Cione; they were important members of the Pai ...

on the Strozzi chapel in

Santa Maria Novella Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and is the city's principal Dominican church. The chu ...

by 1370. That same year he worked in the church of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas in

. In 1371 he travelled to Naples to paint a polyptych for the church of Sant’Antonio Abate. On his return to Tuscany, Niccolò frescoed for the Church of Tau, Pistoia. He painted a ''Coronation of the Virgin'' (

Accademia, Venice The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery ...

), and ''The Massacre of the Innocents'' (

Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery (; it, Galleria degli Uffizi, italic=no, ) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums ...

, Florence). He also painted a ''Madonna del Parto'' in the church of

San Lorenzo, Florence The Basilica di San Lorenzo (Basilica of St. Lawrence) is one of the largest churches of Florence, Italy, situated at the centre of the main market district of the city, and it is the burial place of all the principal members of the Medici famil ...

.Museo Thyssen-Bornemiza
short biography.

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