Gherardo Starnina

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'Dormition of the Virgin' by Gherardo Starnina, c. 1404-1408, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Gherardo Starnina (1354 - 1403)^[1] was a Florentine painter of the early Quattrocento.

According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, Starnina initially trained with Antonio Veneziano, then with Agnolo Gaddi. He is claimed to have participated in the painting of the frescos in the Castellani Chapel in Santa Croce, Florence. He is also said to have moved to Spain in 1380 to work under Juan I of Castile, and is attributed some painting in the San Blas chapel of the Cathedral of Toledo.

Several paintings formerly attributed to the Master of the Bambino Vispo are now attributed to Gherardo Starnina, and the two artists may have been the same person.