ANDREA DI GIUSTO MANZINI

ANDREA di GIUSTO MANZINI. — Florentine painter. A pupil of Lorenzo Monaco, he first collaborated with Bicci di Lorenzo, then with Masaccio on the polyptych for the church of the Carmine in Pisa (1426); indeed, the two sections of the predella depicting the stories of St Julian and St Nicholas belong to him and are now in the State Gallery in Berlin. In 1437 he signed an Assumption with Saints in the Florentine Academy, and around 1445 he executed three frescoes depicting the Marriage of the Virgin, the Martyrdom and the Funeral of St Stephen in the Bocchineri chapel (or rather of Tommasa dei Palei) in the cathedral of Prato. In his later works he was strongly influenced by Fra Angelico and was not indifferent to the researches of Domenico Veneziano. Among the major masters, however, he struggled to find his own direction and his individuality remained weak; this often makes the catalogue of his works controversial and uncertain, which also includes panel paintings.