Neroccio de landi biography of william shakespeare

Neroccio de landi biography of william shakespeare

By the mid 15th century, the glory days of Medieval Siena were long over. While its art from that period has been widely admired, the later painting of Renaissance period Siena has been largely ignored outside Italy.
This is in part because Siena was conquered by neighbouring Florence in the mid 16th century, with the art history of the region written by the victors and the achievements of Sienese artists overshadowed by its more powerful rival.
Neroccio di Landi was a student of Vecchietta, and then he shared a workshop with Francesco di Giorgio from 1468.

He painted Scenes from the life of St Benedict, now in the Uffizi, probably in collaboration with di Giorgio, and a Madonna and Child between Saint Jerome and Saint Bernard, which is