( fl 1454; d before 18 April 1469). French painter. He signed an altarpiece of St Margaret for Fréjus Cathedral IACOBUM. DURANDI; DE NIC[IA]. He was probably in Marseille in 1450. In 1454 he was commissioned to paint a panel for the chapel of Sainte Croix in the tower of Lérins Monastery and probably painted a portrait of the governor of Nice, Giorgio de Possasco, for the Salle du Conseil. With his brother Christol, mentioned in Aix-en-Provence in 1471, he painted cupboards in the gallery of St Maurice at Nice in 1461. On 18 April 1469 Christol received from the syndics of Cannes an instalment towards finishing within the month the altarpiece of St Sebastian, ordered from his late brother for the church of that name. The signed St Margaret altarpiece (2.23*2.34 m) is an imposing construction in two registers, executed c. 1450. Also attributed to Durandi are the altarpiece of St John the Baptist (2.16*1.92 m) of c. 1460 from the church of Lucéram and the Baptism of c. 1465 (1.15*0.52 m; both Nice, Mus. Masséna). These archaizing panels, characterized by precise draughtsmanship and fine modelling together with a slight dryness of execution, show no trace of the influence of ‘modern’ Provençal painting, such as the work of the Master of the Aix Annunciation or Enguerrand Quarton, but instead show a nostalgia for the more international, Gothic style of the earlier 15th century, especially for the painting of Durandi’s predecessor Jean Mirailhet. A relationship with Catalan work seems more evident than the affinities noted by some critics with the painting of the Marches or Tuscany.