Silvestro dei Gherarducci
Silvestro dei Gherarducci (c. 1339 – c. 1399) was an Italian painter and illuminator in Florence. He became a monk and later a prior of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli where he first started work on illustrations for manuscripts. Paintings Madonna and Child with Sts. John Baptist and Paul (?), circa 1375, tempera on panel, 83.82 × 76.835 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.39.1) Assumption of the Virgin, circa 1365, tempera on panel, 41 × 27 cm (Pinacoteca Vaticana) Madonna and Child, circa 1365–1370, tempera on panel, 49 × 30.5 cm (private collection) The Assumption of Saint Mary Magdalene, 1380s, tempera on panel, 161.1 × 81.9 cm (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, NGI.841) Madonna and Child, circa 1366–1375, tempera on panel, 164 × 89 cm (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, inv. 3161) The Madonna and Child, tempera on panel, 30.5 × 20.3 cm (The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999.32) Illuminated manuscripts Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli, considered to be Don Silvestro's crowning achievement, is currently preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence (Codice Corale 2 / Cod. Cor. 2), with twenty detached pages in various