Francesco di Stefano was known as Pesellino, perhaps because he was taught by his grandfather Giuliano Pesello. He may have been a pupil of Fra Filippo Lippi, who certainly influenced him. Lippi completed Pesellino's altarpiece 'The Trinity with Saints' when it was left unfinished on his early death at the age of 35.
Pesellino was active in Florence around the middle of the century. In company with Piero di Lorenzo and Zanobi di Migliore he ran a workshop in the Corso degli Adimari (modern Via dei Calzaiuoli). 'The Trinity with Saints', which was commissioned in 1455, is his only documented work, though others are attributed to him.
Francesco Pesellino
1422 - 1457
Paintings by Francesco Pesellino
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This long and fantastically detailed painting is a precious survivor of Renaissance interior decoration – and it gives us an idea of just how spectacular this could be. It is one of a pair telling the story of David, King of Israel, who started life as a shepherd boy but rose to fame and fortune...
A fantastic procession winds its way through a Tuscan landscape dotted with hills and walled towns. Extravagantly dressed nobles ride prancing horses, while their hounds, a hunting cheetah and even a bear trot along beside them.Although it looks like medieval Italy, this actually shows a biblical...
This angel comes from a pala (an altarpiece with a single, unified surface) which was sawn into pieces in the eighteenth century but reassembled by the National Gallery in the 1930s. It was made for a confraternity of priests, and shows the Trinity (God the Father, Christ and the Holy Ghost as a...
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This angel comes from a pala (an altarpiece with a single, unified surface) which was sawn into pieces in the eighteenth century, but reassembled by the National Gallery in the 1930s. In a particular light you can see the joins where the parts have been stuck together.The altarpiece was made for...
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This large pala (an altarpiece with a single, unified surface) was painted for a church in Pistoia, but sawn into pieces in the eighteenth century. It was reassembled in the National Gallery – look closely and you can see lines where the fragments were put back together.Two fourth-century saints...
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Francesco Pesellino and Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop
These saints come from a large pala (an altarpiece with a single, unified surface) which was sawn into pieces in the eighteenth century and later reassembled in the National Gallery. Look closely and you can see lines where the fragments were put back together. The altarpiece was begun by Frances...
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Francesco Pesellino and Fra Filippo Lippi and workshop
This large altarpiece – one of the few in the National Gallery which is almost complete – has had an eventful life. It was commissioned in 1455 from the Florentine painter Francesco Pesellino, and is his only surviving documented work. He died in 1457 and it was finished by Fra Filippo Lippi and...
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Francesco Pesellino and Fra Filippo Lippi and workshop
This large pala (an altarpiece with a single, unified surface) was painted for a church in Pistoia but was sawn into pieces in the eighteenth century; most of it was later reassembled in the National Gallery. Look closely and you can see lines where the separate fragments were put back together.I...
Not on display
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