Italian painter, active in the region of the Marches. He probably took his name from the village of Montepulciano in the Marches and not from the town in Tuscany. He is also called Pietro da Recanati. The polyptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints (1418; Museo Sacro Diocesano, Osimo), painted for the baptistery at Osimo, is his first dated work; its composition is still in the style characteristic of 14th-century painting of Umbria and the Marches, although it also suggests that the artist may have been influenced by the Venetian figurative style. This is confirmed by other panels, such as the Coronation of the Virgin (Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington), the Virgin and Child with Saints (Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover) and the Madonna of Mercy (Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon). These paintings, in which form is created by means of soft shading, recall the work of Jacobello del Fiore in the Marches. //