Private collection, Milan.

Before Lippo D’Andrea’s artistic identity was recently confirmed, his oeuvre had been attributed to a painter otherwise known as the Pseudo-Ambrogio di Baldese. He represents one of the more conservative styles of Florentine paintings from the first third of the 15th century. His compositions were 💫highly sought after, even as other artists experimented with a more humanist approach in theꦍ dawn of the Early Renaissance.

The natural folds of the cloths and realistic rendering of the saint's beard give this panel a likely date of execution to circa 1420, when the artist's Got🧜hic style was influenced by the humanist advancements of his peers in Florence, including&n🌞bsp;Lorenzo Monaco (1370 - 1425) and Giovanni dal Ponte (1385 - 1438).

We are grateful to Dr. Angelo Tartuferi for endorsing the attribution to Lippo D’Andrea on the basis of first-hand in♏spection.

1. For more information on the artist, please refer to L. Kanter, "Lippo d'Andrea di Lippo", in Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450, New York 1994, pp. 318-21.