Niccolò di Buonaccorso

Madonna and Child Enthroned by Niccolò di Buonaccorso, circa 1380

Niccolò di Buonaccorso, also Niccolò di Niccolò di Buonaccorso or Bonaccorso, (active 1355 – 1388) was an Italian politician and Sienese School painter of Medieval art.

Very little information exists on this painter. In 1355 Niccolò di Buonaccorso enrolled in the Guild of Sienese painters. From 1372 to 1388 he served on the Board of Siena supreme governing body, and in 1381 he was elected honorary Gonfaloniere in the parish of San Martino. The artist's style is similar to that of the Sienese masters of the Trecento, such as Simone Martini and Ambrogio Lorenzetti. The artist demonstrates a sharp style and an exceptionally refined technical ability. Of his known surviving works, one is The Marriage of the Virgin, which is one of a series of panels, probably part of a triptych, and the other is a polyptych (now fragmented), which is dated 1387.^[1] There are also devotional theme paintings by Niccolò di Buonaccorso in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Indiana University Art Museum collection contains a Portable Triptych with Madonna of Humility. A Madonna attributed to Buonaccorso is displayed in the Städel Gallery in Frankfurt.

References

1. "National Gallery Brief Bio of Niccolò di Buonaccorso". Retrieved 6 Aug 2014.

• Miklòs Boskovitz, Su Niccolò di Bonaccorso, Benedetto di Bindo and Sienese painting in the early fifteenth century, Comparison, 1980.
• Pia Palladino, Art and devotion to Siena after 1350: Luca di Tommè, Nicolò di Buonaccorso, Timken Museum of Art, 1998.
• Juliet Dini, Five Centuries of Sienese painting (from Duccio to the Birth of the Baroque), Thames & Hudson, 1998.

Further Reading

• Pope-Hennessy, John & Kanter, Laurence B. (1987). The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings. New York, Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 0870994794. (see index; plate 14-15)