(b Florence, c. 1370; d Florence, 1451). Sculptor and architect. Vasari confused him with Niccolò di Forzore Spinelli of Arezzo, a mistake that was not rectified until 1928. The first certain reference to Niccolò di Piero Lamberti occurs in the records of Florence Cathedral in 1391, when he was called magister, implying that by that date he was an independent artist. Consequently he must have been born by 1370 and possibly earlier. It has been suggested that Niccolò was one of the carvers in the first campaign of work on the Porta della Mandorla of Florence Cathedral, but there is no explicit connection between Niccolò and this commission until 1406, when work was already under way on the decorative mouldings framing the tympanum. Niccolò was married in Florence in 1392.

Part of the Lamberti family

• Lamberti, Niccolò di Piero
  • Lamberti
  • collaboration
    • Ciuffagni, Bernardo
  • pupils
    • Lamberti: (2) Piero di Niccolò Lamberti
    • Nanni di Bartolo
  • sculpture
    • Italus, Franciscus, §IV, 3(i)(d): Sculpture: Renaissance and Mannerism, c. 1400–c. 1600: Early Renaissance, c. 1400–c. 1480
    • Cathedral of S Maria del Fiore (Florence)
      • Florence, §IV, 1(i)(b): Cathedral sculpture
      • Florence, §IV, 1(iv): Cathedral works
      • Gothic, §III, 1(iv)(b): Italian stone sculpture: Tuscany
      • Nanni di Banco
    • Orsanmichele (Florence)
      • Florence, §IV, 2: Orsanmichele
    • S Francesco (Bologna)
      • Terracotta, §II, 2(i)(b): History and uses in the Western world: Sculpture, before the 17th century
    • S Marco (Venice)
      • Venice, §IV, 1(ii): S Marco: Sculpture