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[[File:Madonna col bambino in trono(1480,Pier Francesco Fiorentino).jpg|thumb|''Madonna col bambino in trono'' (1480), Palazzo Vicarile de [[Certaldo]]]]

'''Pier Francesco Fiorentino''' (1444/1445 –  after 1497) was a 15th-century painter active in [[San Gimignano]] for much of his mature life, depicting religious-themed subjects.

==Biography==
Fiorentino was born in Florence, the son of the Florentine painter Bartolomeo di Donato, and received his first art education in his father's workshop. At age 25 he was ordained a priest. He joined in the circle of painter [[Benozzo Gozzoli]] and worked with him in San Gimignano and [[Certaldo]] during the 1460s.

==Works==
An altarpiece in the Gallery at [[Empoli]] dates from about 1474. In 1475 he worked together with [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]] on the decoration of the nave of the [[Collegiate Church of San Gimignano|Duomo of San Gimignano]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=pylAAAAAYAAJ Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings], Volume 1, by Fogg Art Museum, page 69.</ref> In that same year he painted an ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Matthew the Apostle, William hermit, Barbara and Sebastiano'' for the Chapel of St William in the Collegiata of Empoli; the work is now exhibited in the Museum adjoining the church. He signed a ''Madonna and Saints'' (1494) in [[Sant'Agostino Church, San Gimignano]] and a ''Tobias and the Angels'' (1497).

==See also==
*[[Anonymous masters]]

==References==
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==Sources==
* Anna Padoa Rizzo (eds), ''Art and patronage in Val d'Elsa and Era'', Florence, Octavo, 1997, pp.&nbsp;34–45, 66, 77–78, 81–82, 114 – 115 {{ISBN|88-8030-104-7}}
* Francesca Allegri – Massimo Tosi, ''Certaldo poetry of the Middle Ages'', series "Millennial Elsa Valley", Certaldo (Florence), Federighi Publishers, 2002, pp.&nbsp;102–103 (on the frescoes of the Praetorian Palace of Certaldo).
* Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani, ''Empoli. Routes of the Museum of the Collegiate Church and the Church of Santo Stefano'', "Lo Studiolo", Florence, Becocci – Scala, 2005, pp.&nbsp;39, 42.
* Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani (eds), ''Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea in Empoli'', series "Small Great Museums", Florence, Polistampa Publishing, 2006, pp.&nbsp;110–111 {{ISBN|88-596-0083-9}}.
* R. Razzi, ''The Sanctuary of the Madonna di San Gimignano in Pancole''. The History and the Image, Poggibonsi, Graphic Arts Nencini, 2002.

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[[Category:1444 births]]
[[Category:1497 deaths]]
[[Category:Quattrocento painters]]
[[Category:Italian male painters]]
[[Category:15th-century Italian painters]]
[[Category:Painters from Florence]]


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