Niccolo di Ser Sozzo Tegliaccio

Who was Niccolo di Ser Sozzo Tegliaccio?

Niccolo di Ser Sozzo was an Italian painter and manuscript illuminator. He generally has been identified as Niccolo di Ser Sozzo di Francesco Tegliacci, but recent research points instead to a Niccolo di Ser Sozzo di Stefano. Whatever his true identity, Niccolo was one of the leading panel painters and miniaturists at work in Siena in the mid-14th century. His style is closest to that of Lippo Vanni and his sometime collaborator Luca di Tomme and is ultimately dependent upon the tradition of Simone Martini and, especially, the Lorenzetti brothers, in whose workshop he may have apprenticed.

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