Cenni di Francesco di ser Cenni was an Italian

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painter active in

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between 1369/1370 and 1415. His only signed work is the fresco of the True Cross at the Cappella della Croce di Giorno at the church of San Francesco in

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, painted in 1410. A couple of dozen works have been attributed to Cenni di Francesco on the basis of a similarity of style with the fresco. The fresco at the entrance to the

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in Florence is attributed to Cenni di Francesco as well, and it was presumably painted in the early 1390s, based on a comparison with the paintings of this period. A ''Polyptych with Coronation of the Virgin and Saints'' (circa 1390) is on display in the Getty Museum in California.Getty Museum

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