Niccolò Semitecolo

{{Short description|Italian painter}}

File:Niccolò Semitecolo - Two Christians before the Judges.jpg (1367), Tempera on wood, 65 x 72 cm. In the sacristy of Padua Cathedral]]

Niccolò Semitecolo was a 14th-century Venetian painter (born in Venice) painter of the early-Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice and Padua. His work demonstrates the influence of Giotto. He is first recorded in 1353.[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicoletto-semitecolo/ Biography on] Treccani online

Apart from a number of Madonnas and other religious works, his main work is a rather puzzling and now dispersed set of panels for a polyptych work on the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian for Padua Cathedral, several panels of which are now in the Diocesan Museum there, with another still in the cathedral. It is signed and dated 1367.[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicoletto-semitecolo/ Biography on] Treccani online

A large hanging crucifix in the Church of the Eremitani in Padua is attributed to him.[https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/nicoletto-semitecolo/ Biography on] Treccani online This is next door to the Scrovegni Chapel where Giotto completed his most famous fresco cycle in about 1305.