Master of Badia a Isola

The Master of Badia a Isola was an Italian painter whose working dates are given in the sources as roughly 1300 to 1400. His conventional name comes from a Madonna and Child that hangs in the abbey of the Saints Salvatore and Cirino at Abbadia a Isola, near Monteriggioni in the province of Siena. As with many artists of the period, his real name is not known.

Several other paintings are also believed to be by his hand, although the reference text does not describe them or say where they are. His catalogue is therefore reconstructed on the basis of stylistic judgement, and attributions remain provisional. His importance lies in the fact that his work helps us understand Tuscan painting of his time when no documents record who made it.