Master of the Medici Chapel Altarpiece (active between 1315 and 1335)

• Master of the Cappella Medici Polyptych (sometimes called the Master of Terenzano) was an Italian painter.
• Active in Florence.
• Identified in the twentieth century by Bernard Berenson as the Master of Terenzano, the Master was renamed for a polyptych from his hand, dating to the 1320s, that originally stood in the Medici Chapel of the church of Santa Croce in Florence.
• The panels, half-length depictions of saints, have since been separated, and are used as pinnacles for the altarpiece on the high altar of the same church.
• It would appear that the Master was well respected, even if he occupied a modest position in local artistic circles.

• He forms part of a line of artists, beginning with the Master of Saint Cecilia and continuing through Pacino de Bonaguida.

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