di Andrea Bartolo Cini

(b Siena, between 1358 and 1364; d Siena, 3 June 1428). Painter and illuminator, son of (1) Bartolo di Fredi Cini. He trained under his father, and his first documented work, the altarpiece (1389; untraced) for the chapel of the Universit? dei Calzolai in Siena Cathedal, was executed in collaboration with his father and Luca di Tomm?. His style can be seen, however, in the altarpieces that Bartolo di Fredi painted between 1380 and 1388: for example in the panel of the Massacre of the Innocents (1388; Baltimore, Walters A.G.) from the altarpiece of the Presentation in the Temple (see (1) above) for San Gimignano, S Agostino, which shows Andrea's talent for small-scale work, or in the predella panels (Siena, Pin. N.) from the 1383-8 Coronation of the Virgin altarpiece for S Francesco in Montalcino. Andrea employed a more summary drawing technique and softer, less emphatic modelling than his father, and he attached less importance to naturalistic detail and expressionism. He was an extremely competent craftsman but a traditionalist, and his style shows no obvious variations, making his artistic development difficult to trace. The signed triptych of the Annunciation flanked by SS Anthony Abbot and Mary Magdalene (Buonconvento, Mus. A. Sacra Val d'Arbia), however, which is stylistically directly dependent on Bartolo di Fredi's work, probably belongs to Andrea's first years as an independent painter (c. 1390-94).

Part of the Cini family

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