Vincenzo di Antonio Frediani

Italian painter, formerly known as the Master of the Lucchese Immaculate Conception. The discovery of the contract for a large painting which was originally his name-piece, the Immaculate Conception with Saints and Kings David and Solomon, for the church of San Francesco in Lucca, has identified Frediani as the painter of a group of paintings formerly attributed to the Master of the Immaculate Conception. He was probably trained in Lucca but in the 1480s fell under the influence of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi and Botticelli. In 1481 he painted an altarpiece (untraced) for the Lucchese merchant Paolo di Serfederigi for his altar in San Agostino, Lucca. The Virgin and Child Enthroned with SS Nicholas, Dominic, Vincent, Peter Martyr and Two Angels (destroyed) was ordered by Domenico del Voglia in 1482 for his chapel in San Romano, Lucca, and finished before 1485. This painting was previously attributed to another anonymous master, the Buonvisi Painter, and it is possible that other paintings attributed to that Master may be the work of Frediani.

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