Pesellino (1422-1457)
Aliases: Francesco "degli" Arrighi; Francesco "d'" Arrigo; Francesco di Pesello; Francesco di Stefano (1422); Francesco di Stefano di Francesco; Francesco Pesellino
Professions: Painter; Miniature painter
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MANNER OF FRANCESCO DI STEFANO, CALLED IL PESELLINO FLORENCE CIRCA 1422 - 1457
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*FRANCESCO PESELLINO (1422-1457)
Pesellino Biography
(b Florence, c. 1422; d Florence, 29 July 1457). Italian painter. According to the catasto (land registry declaration) return of his grandfather PESELLO, Francesco di Stefano was five years old in 1427. He was the son of the painter Stefano di Francesco (d 1427), who married Pesellos eldest daughter. By the early 1440s, perhaps after initial training in his grandfathers workshop on the Corso degli Adimari, Florence, Pesellino appears to have joined Fra Filippo Lippis workshop. He may have been the Franciesco di Stefano pittore who enrolled in the Compagnia di S Luca in 1447. In August 1453 Pesellino went into partnership with Piero di Lorenzo di Pratese (d 1487) and Zanobi di Migliore, and numerous replicas of popular Virgin and Child compositions by Pesellino were probably produced in this joint workshop for sale on the open market.
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