Alesso Baldovinetti

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Alesso Baldovinetti
Alesso Baldovinetti, sometimes mistakenly referred to as Alessio (1427-1499), was an Italian painter.

Born in Florence in 1427 to Baldovinetto and Agnola Ubaldini da Gagliano, he enrolled in the Company of San Luca in 1448 and was possibly a pupil of Domenico Veneziano. The influence of Beato Angelico is evident in his early works, with whom he collaborated on the decoration of the doors in the Basilica of the Santissima Annunziata.

With Domenico Veneziano, he created one of the most interesting artistic comparisons, according to ancient sources, of the Renaissance. Around 1461 Baldovinetti finished the cycle of frescoes in the church of Sant'Egidio, begun by Veneziano and Piero della Francesca and continued by Andrea del Castagno. Although the cycle was destroyed during the eighteenth century, some art historians attribute to the work an importance equal to that of the Brancacci Chapel. Traces of that cycle of frescoes remain only in a few fragments of the sinopias (among other things of little significance, because they relate to the decoration of the base on which the figures rested) today preserved in the museum of the Last Supper of Sant'Apollonia.

In 1460 he returned to the Annunziata to fresco the Adoration of the Shepherds in the cloister of the Voti, where he unsuccessfully experimented with a new partially dry technique. In 1467 he painted the Annunciation and the Prophets, Evangelists and Doctors of the Church for the Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal in the church of San Miniato al Monte. In 1469 he was commissioned to create the Trinity altarpiece for the Gianfigliazzi chapel in the Basilica of Santa Trinita.

Among his most famous works are an Annunciation at the Uffizi, a Madonna at the Louvre and another Annunciation kept in the church of San Miniato al Monte, also in Florence. He was also an excellent mosaicist and from 1483 he took care of the restoration of the mosaics in the dome of the baptistery of San Giovanni. Baldovinetti is also responsible for the designs of wooden inlays and stained glass windows, such as the one in the Pazzi Chapel. Other stained glass windows by his hand are in Pisa, Lucca, Assisi and Prato. 

Among his most important students was Domenico Ghirlandaio.

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