Andrea di Bartolo was an Italian painter, active in Siena between 1389-1428. It is very probable that he was the master of Sano di Pietro. Painter and illuminator, he is first documented in 1389, in the Breve dell’Arte de’pittori senesi. He began his training in the workshop of his father, Bartolo di Fredi Cini. His first documented work is an altarpiece for the chapel of the Università dei Calzolai, in the Duomo of Siena, made in collaboration with his father and Luca di Tommè. During the 1380s he worked in his father’s workshop, where he stood out for his skill in small format painting; proof of this is the panel The Slaughter of the Innocents, preserved in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore and belonging to the altarpiece of The Presentation in the Temple, carried out for the church of San Agostino, in San Gimignano. It seems that after 1390 he worked as an independent painter; the signed triptych of The Annunciation, in Buonconvento, Museo d’Arte Sacra, Val d’Arbia, is located in that period (National Museum Thyssen-Bornemisza).
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