Cecco di Pietro (1330-1402)

• Was an Italian painter of the Pisan School.
• He was active starting from around 1370 and died sometime before 1402.
• Early documents indicate that some of Cecco di Pietro's first work as an artist was restoring frescoes.
• He is first mentioned in notices from around 1370 as having worked at the Campo Santo with five other painters working on restoring frescoes in the area.
• He is next mentioned in notices from 1372 concerning the restoration of the Story of Job fresco in the Campo Santo with Francesco Volterra.
• One of his masterpiece is the Madonna and Child, signed and dated 1378, was the central compartment of Saint Rainerius polyptych made for the church of San Francesco in Pisa. 

• He continued to work in the fresco style until his death around 1402. 

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