\paperw4890 \margr0\margl0 \plain \f1 \ATXsh255 Italian painter. \ATXsh4607 \par
\ATXsh255 In Florence he was enthralled by the art of Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, and Ghiberti.
In 1439 he frescoed \i Scenes from the Life of the Virgin\i0 in the chancel of the church of SantÆEgidio, with the assistance of the young Piero della Francesca and Bicci di Lorenzo. The tondo of the \i Adoration of the Magi\i0 (Berlin, Staatliche Museen) i
s an earlier, but already mature work in which the restraint and solid structure of Tuscan painting is blended with late Gothic iconographic motifs. His altarpiece for the church of Santa Lucia dei Magnoli (1445-48) depicting the \i Madonna and Child wit
h Saints Lucy, John the Baptist, and Zenobius\i0 (Florence, Uffizi) has a calm solemnity and symmetrical composition.\ATXsh4607
