Workshop of Jacopo di Cione

A painter in 14th-century Florence rarely worked alone. Jacopo di Cione, the younger brother of the painter Orcagna, ran a busy shop from the late 1360s, and much of what left it was painted by assistants working to his designs and in his manner. When a museum writes "workshop of Jacopo di Cione", it means a panel made in that shop by a hand that cannot be named.

The documents show how such work was shared. For the large Coronation of the Virgin that the magistrates of the Florentine mint ordered in 1372, now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Jacopo was the main author, and two other painters, Niccolò di Tommaso and Simone di Lapo, are recorded as helping him finish it.

The Accademia gives the workshop label to a second panel, with three scenes from the childhood of Christ, painted between about 1375 and 1385 for the church of San Giovanni Evangelista at Boldrone, just north of Florence.