\paperw3900 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b GIOVANNI DI FRANCESCO\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Florence, recorded from 1439 to 1459)\par
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The references in the registr
ies to Giovanni di Francesco del Cervelliera, a Florentine artist who enrolled in the guild of painters known as the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in 1442, are vague and contradictory. He is identified with the so-called ôMaster of the Carrand Triptych,ö a
name previously assigned by critics to a well-defined group of works. The painterÆs work suggests that he was initially influenced by Paolo Uccello, but then came to adopt Domenico VenezianoÆs tendency to paint pictures bathed in a clear light that defin
es the outlines of forms and gives a hard edge even to shadows.
