CECCARELLI, NADD. - Sienese painter of the mid-14th century, of whom only a few signed works are known. These are: a panel with the half-length Madonna and Child in the Cook collection in Richmond, which on the frame adorned with eight medallions with figures of saints bears the inscription: « Naddus C. de Senis me Pinxit MCCCXLVII »; a small panel with Christ emerging from the tomb in the Lichtenstein collection in Vienna, undated, and a Madonna and Child in the museum of Budapest.

Thanks to these three works it has been possible to attribute to C. with certainty, among other things, the Polyptych in five compartments with cusps no. 115 of the picture gallery of Siena, a Madonna in the Horne museum in Florence and a predella with medallions with the Pietà and various Saints and coats of arms of the hospital of S. M. della Scala in the Platt collection in Englewood (New Jersey). This body of work reveals to us a modest and graceful follower of Lippo Memmi, rather rapid in stroke but most accurate and precious in execution.

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BIBL.: F. M. Perkins, Su certe pitture di N. C., in Rassegna d'arte senese, 1909, p. 3 ff.; G. De Nicola, Due dipinti senesi della collezione Lichtenstein, in Boll. d'arte del ministero della P. I., 1920, p. 243; R. van Marle, The development of the Ital. School of Painting, II, The Hague 1924, pp. 303-309; G. H. Edgell, A History of Sienese Painting, New York 1932, pp. 157-158.

Enzo Carli

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