Niccolò di Tommaso (active 1346–1376) was an Italian painter active in
Florence
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,
Naples
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and
Pistoia
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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
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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
Pistoia
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. 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
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), and ''The Massacre of the Innocents'' (
Uffizi
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, Florence). He also painted a ''Madonna del Parto'' in the church of
San Lorenzo, Florence
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.
Museo Thyssen-Bornemiza
short biography.
References
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14th-century people of the Republic of Florence
Painters from Florence
Gothic painters
14th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown