Giuliano Pesello

Giuliano Pesello, born Giuliano d'Arrigo (sometimes spelled 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.

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

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. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 124.

External links

• painting in Rome