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Andrea dei Bruni [Andrea da Bologna]
( fl c. 1355–77). Italian painter. Two mid-14th-century Bolognese artists called Andrea are recorded: Andrea dei Bruni, living in Ancona in 1377, and ANDREA DE’ BARTOLI. Arcangeli suggested that Bruni was the author of a group of works including the polyptych (Fermo, Pin. Com.), signed and dated 1369 de Bononia natus Andreas and the Madonna of Humility (Corridonia, S Agostino), signed and dated 1372. Longhi had already distinguished these from the work of Andrea de’ Bartoli. Bruni was a modest follower of Vitale da Bologna; his figures are naive in expression and usually stilted in drawing, although, disconcertingly, some of those in the Fermo polyptych reflect the sophisticated style of Andrea de’ Bartoli. The architectural settings show an interest in space perhaps inspired by the frescoes in the church of S Francesco in nearby Assisi. Some of the frescoes in the nave of the abbey church, Pomposa, may be early works (c. 1355). Modest frescoes in S Maria della Rocca, Offida, and a more sophisticated Coronation of the Virgin and Musician Angels recently removed from S Niccolò, Osimo, suggest that Andrea’s pleasant version of Vitale’s expressive style found widespread favour in the Marches, and he may have been in the service of Giovanni da Oleggio, who exchanged the Signoria of Bologna for the position of papal vicar of Fermo in 1360.
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