Gregorio di Cecco: A Sienese Master of Madonna Enthroned Gregorio di Cecco (c. 1390 – ca. 1424), born in Siena, Italy, stands as a pivotal figure within the Trecento artistic landscape—a transitional period between Gothic and Renaissance styles—and is celebrated primarily for his monumental Madonna Enthroned altarpiece housed in San Gregorio Magno Basilica in Rome. Little biographical information survives about Di Cecco’s early life. He was apprenticed to Giovanni Pisano, a renowned sculptor who had pioneered the Florentine marble sculpture tradition and championed naturalism. This formativ…