This is a preview of the content in our Florence Art & Culture app. Get the app to:
- Read offline
- Remove ads
- Access all content
- Use the in-app Map to find sites, and add custom locations (your hotel...)
- Build a list of your own favourites
- Search the contents with full-text search functionality
- ... and more!
Lorenzo di Bicci
Patriarch of the Bicci Boys
![[ B ] Lorenzo di Bicci - The Madonna and Child in glory - Detail](lorenzo-di-bicci.jpg "[ B ] Lorenzo di Bicci - The Madonna and Child in glory - Detail")
Lorenzo di Bicci (c. 1350–1427), father of Bicci di Lorenzo and grandfather of Neri di Bicci was a painter in the Orcagna mould. Some of his work, such as the Madonna and Child in Glory above verges on the surreal.
See his Nativity in San Giovannino dei Cavalieri and other works in the Museo Bandini, the Duomo in Fiesole and Santa Croce in Greve in Chianti.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by cea +