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(2) Nardo di Cione
(b Florence, c. 1320; d Florence, after 21 May 1365, before 16 May 1366). Painter, brother of (1) Andrea di Cione. A number of Florentine documents survive concerning Nardo’s membership of the painters’ guild; other documents mention his changing place of residence in the city, and various commissioned works. His oeuvre has been reconstructed around several signed and dated works as a result of the research of Sirén, Offner and Boskovits in the 20th century. Nardo emerges as an artist with a style of his own, a pronounced lyrical vein, a feeling for poetic values, strong human sympathies and great sensitivity to colour as a means of subtle differentiation and soft modelling. In the absence of concrete evidence for many of the works, however, it is difficult to sketch Nardo’s artistic development, but a probable sequence, based on such stylistic considerations as the changing proportions of his figures, can nevertheless be suggested.
Part of the Cione family
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