\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \fi15 \f1 Italian painter.\par
\fi0 In 1427 the artist is recorded as living with his mother and elder brother, Masaccio, with w
hom he probably collaborated. Between 1469 and 1470, Giovanni was working with his son Antonio Francesco, and in 1480 he shared his workshop with the embroiderer Luca di Piero. The only signed work of his that is known is the fresco representing the \i M
artyrdom of Saint Sebastian\i0 in the oratory of San Lorenzo at San Giovanni Valdarno. On the basis of a stylistic analysis of this work, the paintings previously lumped together under the name of the Master of the Adimari Chest have now been assigned t
o Scheggia. It is possible that the artist û who excelled above all in the decoration of chests and birth tables (the latter include the one depicting the \i Game of Civettino, \i0 that is now in the Palazzo Davanzati, in Florence) û was the assistant of
