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Madonna with a Child and angels
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This Madonna with a Child and Angels is one of the works of the famous Florentine painter Neri di Bicci, Francesco Botticini’s teacher and the last representative of artistic dynasty that took its beginning in the second half of XIV century from Lorenzo di Bicci, who was Neri di Bicci’s grandfather. This painting refers to the final stage of this artist’s activity, that is around 1480. The murals in churches Santa Maria Novella, San Pancrazio, Santa Trinita and others are the most famous among Neri di Bicci’s works.

The painter is especially famous for his Ricordanze – diaries which he kept from 1453 till 1475 and where he wrote down numerous types of orders that he took, the rates for his work and information about his students, employees, patrons and so on. Ricordanze is the most detailed document of this type in the XV century. Today these diaries are kept in the Uffizi Gallery’s library. Di Bicci’s workshop was so popular that on November 22, 1458 Neri had to rent a second workshop on Porta Rossa street in the center of Florence. He created paintings for the different social strata from the highest bourgeoisie to the members of Florentine guilds, government agencies, famous local basilicas and modest provincial churches.

Neri di Bicci was quite a conservative painter which can be seen from his style. Vasari called him one of the last artists that were influenced by Giotto. However, his style has changed over time, and our Madonna with a Child and Angels shows one of the final stages of di Bicci’s development as a painter.

Size: 66.5 x 55.5 cm.