Andrea di Giusto (c. 1400-1450)

• Was also known as Andrea Manzini or Andrea di Giusto Manzini.
• He was an Italian Florentine painter of the late Gothic to early Renaissance style.
• Andrea was heavily influenced by masters Lorenzo Monaco, Bicci di Lorenzo, Masaccio, and Fra Angelico.
• Andrea trained under Bicci di Lorenzo as a Garzone.
• He painted his most significant works, three altarpieces, in the Florentine contado, or countryside; these altarpieces were created for Sant’Andrea a Ripalta in Figline, Santa Margarita in Cortona, and the Badia degli Olivetani di San Bartolomeo alle Sacce near Prato.
• He, along with other minor masters, are also known to have provided several different types of art, including triptychs and frescoes, for Romanesque pievi, or rural churches with baptistries.
• He is said to have worked between 1420 and 1424 under Bicci di Lorenzo on paintings for Santa Maria Nuova.
• He is said to have worked with Masaccio in painting the Life of San Giuliano for the Polyptych of Pisa, including the painting of the Madonna and Child, in 1426.
• He also appears to have collaborated in 1445 with Paolo Uccello in the Capella dell'Assunta in the Prato Cathedral.
• In 1428, he is listed as a member of the Arte dei Medici e Speziali guild in Florence as "Andrea di Giusto di Giovanni Bugli".
• His son, Giusto d'Andrea, was also a painter. 
• Andrea died in Florence in 1450.
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