Andrea di Mariotto del Minga (1540–1596)

• Andrea di Mariotto Cini, known as Andrea del Minga .

• Was an Italian painter.

• He was born in Florence, probably shortly after 1540.
• It is likely that his first teacher was Michele di Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio.
• Vasari attributes to him paintings in Palazzo Pitti and Santa Croce, and particularly for the apparatus of Michelangelo's funeral in 1564.
• In 1565 he may have collaborated on the apparatus for the wedding of Francesco de' Medici.
• In 1566-67 he entered the Guild of Physicians and Apothecaries.
• Between 1570 and 1573 he took part in the decoration of the Studiolo of Francis I in Palazzo Vecchio, painting the oval with Deucalion and Pyrrha signed "A. Alinghi".
• In 1595 he painted a St. John the Baptist for G. B. Della Casa and, for Vincenzo di Sforza Almeni, the Portrait of his wife, together with the Story of Noah and Moses, painted, according to Vasari, on cartoons by Baccio Bandinelli, for the Grand Duchess, together with the Creation of Adam and Eve and the Expulsion of the Progenitors from the Earthly Paradise, still preserved in Pitti.
• Andrea di Mariotto del Minga died in Florence on 8 June 1596.

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