Francesco di Pesello
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Giorgio Vasari
in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
recounts that Pesello was an Italian (Florentine) painter who flourished from about 1390 and died after 1457. He gives the artist’s full name as Francesco di Pesello. Vasari seems to have combined elements from the lives of Giuliano Pesello
(1367–1446), and his son-in-law Stefano di Francesco
(died 1427) in his account.
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari was an Italian painter, writer, historian, and architect, who is famous today for his biographies of Italian artists, considered the ideological foundation of art-historical writing.-Biography:...
in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies written by 16th century...
recounts that Pesello was an Italian (Florentine) painter who flourished from about 1390 and died after 1457. He gives the artist’s full name as Francesco di Pesello. Vasari seems to have combined elements from the lives of Giuliano Pesello
Giuliano Pesello
Giuliano Pesello , whose actual name was Giuliano d'Arrigho, but was known as Pesello, was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Castagno. Vasari states he painted drawings of animals with skill...
(1367–1446), and his son-in-law Stefano di Francesco
Stefano di Francesco
Stefano di Francesco was an Italian painter, who probably died young, as he left a five year old son, and was outlived twenty years by his father-in-law, the painter Giuliano Pesello . His son was the painter Francesco Pesellino , the most distinguished of the three...
(died 1427) in his account.