Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino

Pesellino (Francesco di Giovanni, ca. 1422-1457) son of the painter Stefano di Francesco was the grandson of the more famous Florentine painter Pesello who trained him. By the early 1440's he joined Fra Filippo Lippi's workshop and in 1453 he went into partnership with Piero di Lorenzo Prates and Zanobi di Migliore. His reputation grew in the mid-15th century and brought him the commissions of large-scale painting.

Fra Filippo Lippi (ca.1406-1469) was a friar at the Carmelite monastery of S Maria del Carmine in Florence and one of the leading painters in Renaissance Florence in the generation following Masaccio. Vasari, who is almost the only source for Lippi's early career, stated that his style was formed on Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel frescoes in S Maria del Carmine. Botticelli was his pupil.

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