LORENZO di BICCI (circa 1350 - 1427); an Italian painter with Spinello Aretino; the founder of a workshop of artists / craftsmen who continued his activity for three generations; through his sons Lorenzo and Bicci di Lorenzo; and his black nephew Of Bicci. The portrait is enclosed in a frame decorated with caryatids holding the tools of art and an allegory of painting. Colored illustration on a 16th century xylographic basis; from the treaty 'Le Vite de' the most outstanding painters; sculptors and architects' by Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 - 27 June 1574); second enlarged and revised edition; Giunti; Florence 1568