Neri di Bicci (1419–1491) was an Italian painter lively in his original Florence. A prolific painter of mainly religious themes, he studied below his father, Bicci di Lorenzo, who had in position studied under his father, Lorenzo di Bicci. The three thus formed a line of great painters that began when Neri’s grandfather.
Neri di Bicci’s main works swell a fresco of Saint John Gualbert Enthroned taking into account Ten Saints (1455) for the church of San Pancrazio, Florence (now in the easily reached church of Santa Trinita), an Annunciation (1464) for Santa Maria alla Campora (now in the Florentine Academy), two altarpieces (one obsolete 1452) in the Diocesan Museum of San Miniato, a Coronation of the Virgin (1472) on the tall altar of the abbey church at San Pietro a Ruoti (Bucine), and the Madonna similar to Child next Four Female Saints (1474) on progress to the Sacred Art Museum in Casole d’Elsa from the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena.
Neri is most well-known for his Ricordanze, a series of journals he kept from 1453 until 1475 in which he chronicled the numerous types of commissions he accepted (altarpieces, small devotional panels, frescoes, shop signs, candlesticks, painted sculpture, etc) and the rates of remuneration for his work, as capably as his pupils, collaborators and patrons. The Ricordanze are the most extensive such document from the fifteenth century. They are today preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery.
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