Bicci di Lorenzo

And he painted a Saints Cosmas and Damian and frescoes representing the dedication of the church itself for Sant'Egidio in the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova.

Among his major works are an Enthroned Madonna now in the National Gallery at Parma; the Three Scenes from the Life of St Nicholas, a triptych in the cathedral of Fiesole; and a Nativity in the church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri in Florence.

Throughout his long life, he wasinfluenced by Lorenzo Monaco and with the relations with painters from the Marche region working in Florence, especially with Gentile da Fabriano.

Gentile was inspired by the Madonna of the Quaratesi altarpiece (1425), a work by Gentile, for the one (1433) now in the Galleria di Parma (the lateral ones are in the Pinacoteca Stuart in the same city), and freely copied its predella in the execution of the stories of St. Nicholas (two in the Metropolitan Museum in New York and one in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford) that adorned the step of his dismembered work.

In his later works he has a slightly broader formal structure, which is not, however, to be put in relation to the fact that in 1441 Bicci di Lorenzo helped Domenico Veneziano in the vanished frescoes of S. Egidio; for the Renaissance exercised no fascination on ours, who always remained resolutely Gothic.

Saint Eulalia de Barcelona, Pisa, Museo di San Matteo Pisa
Fresco of Saint Jude the Apostle, painted in Florence Cathedral