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Prato Master
( fl c. 1440–50). Italian painter. Pope-Hennessy (1950) assigned this name to an anonymous artist closely allied with Paolo Uccello. In collaboration with another artist, he painted frescoes of the Lives of the Virgin and St Stephen in the chapel of the Assunta, Prato Cathedral. Specifically attributed to the Prato Master are the scenes depicting the Birth of the Virgin, the Presentation of the Virgin, the Dispute of St Stephen, most of the figures in the borders surrounding the scenes, images of the Virtues on the ceiling and some of the saints on the entrance arch. The fresco of the full-length figure of Jacopone da Todi, discovered in 1871 behind a Baroque altar in the same chapel, can also be attributed to him. The mediocre collaborator responsible for the lower scenes on both walls is almost unanimously recognized as Andrea di Giusto.
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