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Jacopo del Casentino
( fl c. 1315–?1349). Italian painter. He was the subject of a biography by Vasari, who incorrectly identified him as a member of the Landini family still active at the end of the 14th century, and as a fellow Aretine from Pratovecchio. This source, combined with the dearth of documentary evidence, is to blame for much of the confusion surrounding Jacopo. The only clue to his origins is his name, ‘de Casentino’, given in his one signed work, the Cagnola Triptych (Florence, Uffizi), and as he is called in the two contemporary notices that mention him; the evidence of his surviving work, however, indicates a Florentine training in the milieu of the St Cecilia Master, and a career confined to the first half of the 14th century. The chronology of his works is uncertain, and only two of his panels are dated: a Presentation in the Temple (Kansas City, MO, Nelson–Atkins Mus. A.) that bears a plausible date of 1330 on its reconstructed frame, and a fragmentary Virgin and Child (Crespino sul Lamone, S Maria) dated 1342.
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