Pier Francesco Fiorentino (1444/1445 – after 1497) was a 15th-century painter active in
San Gimignano
San Gimignano () is a small walled medieval hill town in the province of Siena, Tuscany, north-central Italy. Known as the Town of Fine Towers, San Gimignano is famous for its medieval architecture, unique in the preservation of about a dozen of ...
for much of his mature life, depicting religious-themed subjects.
Biography
Fiorentino was born in Florence, the son of the Florentine painter Bartolomeo di Donato, and received his first art education in his father's workshop. At age 25 he was ordained a priest. He joined in the circle of painter
Benozzo Gozzoli
Benozzo Gozzoli (4 October 1497) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. A pupil of Fra Angelico, Gozzoli is best known for a series of murals in the Magi Chapel of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, depicting festive, vibrant processions wi ...
and worked with him in San Gimignano and
Certaldo Certaldo is a town and ''comune'' of Tuscany, Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Florence, in the middle of Valdelsa. It is about southwest of the Florence Duomo.
It is 50 minutes by rail and 35 minutes by car southwest of Florence, and it is 40 m ...
during the 1460s.
Works
An altarpiece in the Gallery at
Empoli
Empoli () is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Florence, Tuscany, Italy, about southwest of Florence, to the south of the Arno in a plain formed by the river. The plain has been usable for agriculture since Roman times. The comm ...
dates from about 1474. In 1475 he worked together with
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Domenico di Tommaso Curradi di Doffo Bigordi (, , ; 2 June 1448 – 11 January 1494), professionally known as Domenico Ghirlandaio, also spelled as Ghirlandajo, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Florence. Ghirlandaio was part of ...
on the decoration of the nave of the
Duomo of San Gimignano.
Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings
Volume 1, by Fogg Art Museum, page 69. In that same year he painted an ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Matthew the Apostle, William hermit, Barbara and Sebastiano'' for the Chapel of St William in the Collegiata of Empoli; the work is now exhibited in the Museum adjoining the church. He signed a ''Madonna and Saints'' (1494) in Sant'Agostino Church, San Gimignano and a ''Tobias and the Angels'' (1497).
See also
*Anonymous masters
In art history, an anonymous master is an Old Master whose work is known, but whose name is lost.
Renaissance
Only in the Renaissance did individual artists in Western Europe acquire personalities known by their peers (some listed by Vasari in hi ...
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
* Francesca Allegri – Massimo Tosi, ''Certaldo poetry of the Middle Ages'', series "Millennial Elsa Valley", Certaldo (Florence), Federighi Publishers, 2002, pp. 102–103 (on the frescoes of the Praetorian Palace of Certaldo).
* Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani, ''Empoli. Routes of the Museum of the Collegiate Church and the Church of Santo Stefano'', "Lo Studiolo", Florence, Becocci – Scala, 2005, pp. 39, 42.
* Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani (eds), ''Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea in Empoli'', series "Small Great Museums", Florence, Polistampa Publishing, 2006, pp. 110–111 .
* R. Razzi, ''The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Gimignano in Pancole''. The History and the Image, Poggibonsi, Graphic Arts Nencini, 2002.
1444 births
1497 deaths
Quattrocento painters
Italian male painters
15th-century Italian painters
Painters from Florence
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