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'Giovanni di Ser Giovanni', known as Lo Scheggia, or "the Splinter" ( San Giovanni Valdarno , 1406 - 1486 ) was an Italian painter, brother of the famous Masaccio .
Born in 1406 in San Giovanni in Altura, now San Giovanni Valdarno, he moved with his family in Florence in 1417 . Between 1420 and 1421 he came into relationship with Lorenzo Bicci , probably as an aid to the workshop in the latter. In 1426 he was registered in Pisa as a guarantor for his brother Masaccio, he refused the inheritance in 1428, for the inconsistency. In 1429 the artist had his own workshop in Florence in the parish of St. Apollinaris. In 1430 he joined the Guild of Saint Luke . He joined the "Art of Legnaioli" as "forzerinario", or chest maker; then in 1433 he matriculated at the Art of Doctors and Apothecaries. Between 1436 and 1440 he provided the cartoons for the inlays of the Sacristy of the Florentine Cathedral.
In these years, manufactured especially for the client skips town and luxury furniture while the county does altarpieces and frescoes, is a fragment of the latter signed with the Martyrdom of San Lorenzo in San Lorenzo church in San Giovanni Valdarno. In 1449 on the occasion of the birth of Lorenzo de' Medici runs the Desco da parto with the Triumph of Fame now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Lo Scheggia died in 1486 and was buried in the basilica of Santa Croce.
Are also part of his catalog: a Madonna and Child (1450 ), originally in the church of San Lorenzo in San Giovanni Valdarno and a tempera on panel depicting a Choir of Angels Musicians , part of the door from the vestry of the organ Oratory of San Lorenzo. In the former Abbey of Vallumbrosan Order in Soffena is also preserved its fine Annunciation and the teacher is always to report the so-called Adimari Cassone , a panel kept at the Accademia Gallery in Florence with a party scene set in a city landscape in perspective, in which we recognize the Florence Baptistery.
Literature
Alessandro Delpriori, La giovinezza dello Scheggia e una Madonna col Bambino all'alba del Rinascimento, Firenze, Frascione Arte, 2011. ISBN 978-88-904451-1-8 [1]
