Meliore di Jacopo (fl. 1255-1285)
• Was a Medieval Italian painter from Florence.
• The first certain reference to him is from 1260, when he appears as "Megliore dipintore" in a list of Florentine citizens who participated in the Battle of Montaperti.
• His youthful works date from c.125o to 1260.
• They include a "Madonna and Child" from a church in Panzano (Greve in Chianti), and the "Stoclet Madonna" in the Adolphe Stoclet collection.
• Dated sometime between 1270 and 1275 is a "Madonna and Child with Two Angels"; originally at the church of Santa Maria, previously located in Bagnaldo, a district in Certaldo and now preserved at the nearby Museum of Religious Art.
• His "Madonna and Child" in Montefioralle (Greve in Chianti) is one of his last works, after 1280.
• Many of his works were once attributed to an artist with the notname, "Master of Bagnano".
Meliore di Jacopo, Christ Pantocrator with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, S. Peter, and S. Paul, 1271
Original, Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Visited in 2024.
Meliore di Jacopo, Christ Pantocrator with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, S. Peter, and S. Paul, 1271
Meliore di Jacopo, Christ Pantocrator with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, S. Peter, and S. Paul, 1271
Meliore di Jacopo, Christ Pantocrator with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, S. Peter, and S. Paul, 1271
Meliore di Jacopo, Christ Pantocrator with the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist, S. Peter, and S. Paul, 1271
