(d Florence, 13 Dec 1454). Italian painter. He was a pupil of Andrea del Castagno (Vasari). His only surviving work is a series of cherubs (docmented 1451) painted to frame Giotto’s Badia polyptych (Florence, Uffizi). Of secondary importance (and consequently perhaps not entirely by his hand), this work has some charm and was admired by Jacopo’s contemporaries. The putti are stylistically close to paintings grouped under the name of the MASTER OF PRATOVECCHIO (see MASTERS, ANONYMOUS, AND MONOGRAMMISTS, §I) and particularly to fragments of a fresco from the church of Ognissanti, of identical date. Jacopo di Antonio was the cousin of Giovanni di Francesco, and it is possible that he, rather than Giovanni, may have painted a triptych commissioned by the nuns of the Convento del Paradiso, Pian di Ripoli, near Florence. This triptych may perhaps be identified with the Virgin and Child with SS Bridget and Michael, known as the Poggibonsi altarpiece (Malibu, CA, Getty Mus.) painted c. 1450. If so, Jacopo may perhaps be identified with the Master of Pratovecchio; further evidence suggests that he worked for the same localities as this artist.