Jacopo di Cione, ca. (1325–1400)

• Was an Italian Gothic period painter.
• Jacopo was born in Florence between 1320 and 1330.
• He is closely associated with his three older brothers Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, Nardo di Cione and Matteo di Cione.
• The di Cione (pronounced dee choh’ nay) brothers often worked collaboratively.
• Jacopo lived in the popolo Sancte Marie Novelle and, later in life, in the popolo Sancti Laurentii. 

• He enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in 1369, and was one of the consuls of the guild in 1384, 1387 and 1392. 

• Jacopo also worked regularly with the painter Niccolò di Pietro Gerini.

• Between 1378 and 1380 Jacopo worked in the Florence Cathedral – he is recorded as Matteo guarantor – and continued to procure marble for the cathedral workshop after his brother's death.

• He died in Florence, after 2 May 1398 and before 1400.

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