The Early Renaissance


   

Neroccio di Bartolommeo
 

(b Siena, 1447; d Siena, 1500).

Italian painter and sculptor. Born into the noble Sienese family of Landi del Poggio, he probably learnt painting and sculpture from Lorenzo di Pietro, called il Vecchietta, the teacher of almost all Sienese artists of the second half of the 15th century. Neroccio is first documented in 1461 when he was employed as a garzone (‘shop boy’) with the Cathedral Works of Siena. By 1468 he was working independently and completed his first documented commissions, a panel for Fra Giovanni, a certain rector of the Compagnia di S Girolamo, and a polychrome terracotta of the saint for the same confraternity

Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene
c. 1495
Tempera on panel
Museum of Art, Indianapolis
 

Portrait of a Lady
1490
Wood
National Gallery of Art, Washington
 

Madonna with Child, St Sebastian and St Catherine of Alexandria
1485-90
Tempera on wood, 73 x 50 cm
Christian Museum, Esztergom
 

Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Sigismund
c. 1490
Samuel H. Kress Collection
 

Claudia Quinta
c. 1490/1495
Andrew W. Mellon Collection