Master of the Palazzo Venezia Madonna (active 1340 - About 1360)

• Was Italian painter.
• The painter takes his name from the Virgin and Child once in the Palazzo Venezia in Rome and now in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in the Palazzo Barberini.
• Active around 1350 in Siena.
• He was a close follower of Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, in whose workshop he may have trained.
• He was a collaborator of Bartolomeo Bulgarini.
• Paintings securely attributable to the Master of the Palazzo Venezia Madonna include the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine for Santa Maria della Scala (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena) and the Virgin and Child with Sts Michael and Gabriel (Berenson Collection, Villa I Tatti, Settignano). 

• Bartolo di Fredi may have been his pupil.

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