ANDREA di Niccolò di Jacopo. — Sienese painter born around 1440 and recorded until 1514. Of the various works he executed in Siena and Massa Marittima and cited in documents from 1470, 1477, 1490, 1499, and 1500, no trace remains: however, the Pinacoteca of Siena holds a large altarpiece (no. 298) with the *Madonna and Four Saints*, signed and dated 1500, and in the same gallery a *Crucifixion* (no. 368), dated 1502, is certainly attributed to him. Another work definitely by him, dated 1510, is a tempera on canvas with the *Madonna between Sts Crispin and Crispinian*, executed for the shoemakers’ workers of Siena, preserved in the church of S. Mutilo.
Numerous other paintings have been justly assigned to him, also because, despite his modest stature, his style is highly personal and readily recognizable. It Vecchietta (v.), of whom A. may perhaps have been a pupil, with increasingly ACCIA, BARTOLOMEO (v.) Benvenuto di Giovanni (v.). His works, executed with great care, reveal a gentle and sincere piety, full of popular kindness, and a gently fanciful and contemplative temperament in the landscape backgrounds, inspired, like those of the Sienese of that time, by Umbrian painting. To A. di N. also belong some of the rarest tempera paintings on canvas of the Sienese School.