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Master of the Crocifisso dei Bianchi
( fl 1500–20). Italian painter. The name is given to the painter of the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine with SS Anthony Abbot and James (Lucca, Curia Arcivescovile), originally in the church of the Crocifisso dei Bianchi, Lucca, and formerly attributed to the Master of the Lathrop Tondo. However, this painting and others stylistically close to it, such as the Virgin and Child with SS Stephen and Jerome (Berlin, Gemäldegal.) and the fresco of Famous Men and Women (Lucca, Cathedral Library), are not of the quality of the Master of the Lathrop Tondo (Ferretti) and would seem to be the work of a painter active c. 1510 and influenced by the Master and by Amico Aspertini, who was working in Lucca at that date. Baracchini and others have proposed that the Master of the Crocifisso dei Bianchi can be identified as the painter Ranieri di Leonardo da Pisa, documented in Lucca from 1502 to 1521, who painted with Vincenzo Frediani a Virgin and Child in S Gennaro di Capannori, near Lucca (see Tazartes). He was a minor painter, active in Frediani’s workshop. The Virgin and Child with SS Roch and Frediano (Torre, S Frediano) and the Virgin and Child with SS John the Baptist, Colombano, Catherine and Sebastian (S Colombano, parish church) can be attributed to him on stylistic grounds.
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