Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini ran one of the busiest painting workshops in late fourteenth-century Florence, turning out altarpieces and frescoes for nearly fifty years. First documented in 1368, in the guild that then covered painters, he inherited the grave, monumental style of Giotto's heirs, the brothers Andrea and Nardo di Cione and Taddeo Gaddi, and kept it alive as taste around him began to change.

He rarely worked alone. He partnered with Jacopo di Cione early on, later with Spinello Aretino, a fellow Tuscan muralist, and with his own son Lorenzo di Niccolò. Commissions took him beyond Florence to Pisa and to Prato, where he frescoed scenes in the civic palace. His figures are solid and firmly outlined, made to read clearly at a distance. He was still active into the new century and died around 1415.