Lippo d'Andrea and Bicci di Lorenzo (attr.), Saints Andrew and Judas Thaddeus

Authors
Lippo d'Andrea - Bicci di Lorenzo
Date
1435-1440
Collocation
Sala delle navate
Original location
Cathedral, north tribune (Sant'Andrew) and north nave (San Jude Thaddeus)
Material
Plaster, pigments
Technique
Fresco painting
Dimensions
Height: 54 cm ca.; Width: 46 cm ca.;

Heads of the Apostles (Andrew and Jude), respectively attributed to Lippo d'Andrea and Bicci di Lorenzo. Painted in the 1430s-40s to mark the consecration of the Cathedral, the fresco of Saint Andrew was originally in the north tribune and that of Saint Jude in the north aisle. These detached frescoes date to back to around 1435-1440, just as Brunelleschi was completing his great dome, and were part of two cycles depicting the Apostles: one in the tribunes and the other in the aisles. Rossello di Jacopo Franchi and Giovanni dal Ponte also worked on the tribune cycle, while Bicci di Lorenzo alone was the author of the successive cycle in the aisle. Both Lippo d'Andrea (1377-1457) and Bicci di Lorenzo (1368-1452) were devotees of the late Gothic tradition, and were particularly influenced by Lorenzo Monaco and Gentile da Fabriano, whose dreamy, naturalistic style they echoed, despite the fact that these were the years in which the early Renaissance was already burgeoning in Florence. 

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