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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
Masaccio
Masaccio , born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense...

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Born in 1406 in San Giovanni in Altura, now San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giovanni Valdarno is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the valley of the Arno River. It was originally called Castel S. Giovanni....

, he moved with his family in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

 in 1417 . Between 1420 and 1421 he came into relationship with Lorenzo Bicci
Bicci di Lorenzo
Bicci di Lorenzo was an Italian painter and sculptor, active in Florence.He was born in Florence in 1373, the son of the painter, Lorenzo di Bicci, whose workshop he joined. He married in 1418, and in 1424 was registered in the Guild of Painters at Florence. His son, Neri di Bicci was also a...

 , 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
Guild of Saint Luke
The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was identified by John of Damascus as having painted the...

 . 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
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets...

 runs the Desco da parto
Desco da parto
A painted desco da parto was an important symbolic gift on the occasion of a successful birth in late medieval and Early Modern Florence and Siena...

 with the Triumph of Fame now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...

 in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. 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
Vallumbrosan Order
The Vallumbrosan Order is a Roman Catholic religious order, technically a Benedictine congregation, which derives its name from the motherhouse, Vallombrosa , situated c...

 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.
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