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Niccolò di Buonaccorso
( fl Siena, 1356; bur Siena, 17 May 1388). Italian painter. He is presumed to have been the son of the painter Buonaccorso di Pace ( fl c. 1348-c. 1362). His name first appears in the membership list of the Sienese painters’ guild in 1355-6. In May and June 1372 and in March and April 1376 he participated in the government of Siena. He was Gonfaloniere for the Terzo di S Martino in 1381. Niccolò painted the capello, presumably the baldacchino, over the high altar of Siena Cathedral in 1376 and, in 1383, a panel of the prophet Daniel for an altar in the cathedral. There was once a signed and dated Virgin and Child Enthroned (1387; untraced) in S Margherita, Costalpino (Siena). Niccolò di Buonaccorso’s only known signed work is a Marriage of the Virgin (510*330 mm; London, N.G.; see fig.) inscribed NICHOLAUS BONACHURSI DE SENIS ME PINXIT, which was painted as a companion to a Coronation of the Virgin (New York, Met.) and a Presentation of the Virgin (Florence, Uffizi). Other works by the artist include two panels of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (Boston, MA, Mus. F.A., and Berlin, Gemäldegal.).
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