// Workers AI · dad joke modeWho's Pesello? A painter with a brush above the rest, a pesellent artist.

Ritratto di Pesello in Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.

Giuliano Pesello, born Giuliano d'Arrigo (sometimes spelt Arrigho) (ca. 1367 - 1446), was an Italian painter of the early Renaissance period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painter Andrea del Castagno. Vasari states he painted drawings of animals with skill. He is often called Il Pesello.

His son-in-law Stefano di Francesco, also a painter, died in 1427, leaving a very young son, Francesco Pesellino, whom Pesello brought up and trained. Pesellino appears to have inherited his grandfather's studio and became a celebrated painter in his own right.

Gallery

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  Madonna dell'Umiltà (Madonna of Humility), Firenze
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  Madonna col Bambino e angeli (Madonna and Child with Angels), Rotterdam
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  Testa di Madonna (Head of Our Lady), Milan
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  Emisfero celeste (Celestial hemisphere), Sagrestia Vecchia, circa 1442

References

• Getty Union Artists Name List
• National Gallery Catalogues (new series): The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings, Volume 1, by Dillian Gordon, 2003, ISBN 1-85709-293-7
• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 124.

External links

• painting in Rome