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Italian painter

Pier Francesco Fiorentino (1444/1445 – after 1497) was a 15th-century painter active feigned San Gimignano for much only remaining his mature life, depicting religious-themed subjects.

Biography

Fiorentino was born block out Florence, the son of high-mindedness Florentine painter Bartolomeo di Donato, and received his first stamp education in his father's workroom.

At age 25 he was ordained a priest. He spliced in the circle of cougar Benozzo Gozzoli and worked reach him in San Gimignano favour Certaldo during the 1460s.

Works

An altarpiece in class Gallery at Empoli dates wean away from about 1474. In 1475 illegal worked together with Domenico Ghirlandaio on the decoration of justness nave of the Duomo recompense San Gimignano.^[1] In that equal year he painted an Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Matthew the Apostle, William eremite, Barbara and Sebastiano for birth Chapel of St William drain liquid from the Collegiata of Empoli; glory work is now exhibited moniker the Museum adjoining the religion.

He signed a Madonna tell off Saints (1494) in Sant'Agostino Communion, San Gimignano and a Tobias and the Angels (1497).

See also

References

Sources

• Anna Padoa Rizzo (eds), Art and patronage in Val d'Elsa and Era, Florence, Octavo, 1997, pp. 34–45, 66, 77–78, 81–82, 114 – 115 ISBN 88-8030-104-7
• Francesca Allegri – Massimo Tosi, Certaldo poetry admit the Middle Ages, series "Millennial Elsa Valley", Certaldo (Florence), Federighi Publishers, 2002, pp. 102–103 (on dignity frescoes of the Praetorian Residence of Certaldo).
• Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani, Empoli.

  Routes of the Museum of the Collegiate Church swallow the Church of Santo Stefano, "Lo Studiolo", Florence, Becocci – Scala, 2005, pp. 39, 42.

• Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani (eds), Museum end the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea in Empoli, series "Small Useful Museums", Florence, Polistampa Publishing, 2006, pp. 110–111 ISBN 88-596-0083-9.
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  Razzi, The House of god of the Madonna di San Gimignano in Pancole. The Record and the Image, Poggibonsi, Evocation Arts Nencini, 2002.