\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
The Florentine Domenico di Francesco was apprenticed to a certain Michelino, a manufacturer of strongb
oxes, whose name he adopted. His only documented works are the standard of the Ospedale degli Innocenti (now in the museum of that institution) which represents the \i Madonna degli Innocenti \i0 and the \i Dante\i0 in Florence Cathedral, dating from 14
65. After serving an apprenticeship with Fra Angelico, which was mentioned by Vasari (1568), Domenico seems to have come under the decisive influence, from the fifties onward, of Lippi and the young Pesellino. In the 1460s Domenico acquired a more sculpt
