Biography

Italian painter. The Master of San Miniato is a Florentine painter who was categorized by Bernard Berenson in 1913 and named after an altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints in the church of San Domenico in San Miniato al Tedesco in the province of Pisa. Based on this work, Berenson compiled a catalogue of eight works. The master's art is rooted in Florentine painting of the 1460s and particularly relies on the work of Filippo Lippi. Additional influences came from Cosimo Rosselli and the first students of Andrea del Verrocchio, first and foremost the young Sandro Botticelli and Domenico Ghirlandaio.

The master's paintings are examples of the extensive production of images of this kind in Florence around 1480. They are recognizable by the typical physiognomy of the Christ Child.