Episode from the Story of Griselda

religious

This panel originally formed part of a larger painting in horizontal format, which undoubtedly adorned the front of a cassone (wedding chest). The subject depicted comes from the first part of the "Griselda novella" in Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron. On this panel, on the left, we see Gualtieri, the marquis of Saluzzo take to the road on the day of his wedding.

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About the Artist

Pesellino

1422 – 1457

Pesellino (Francesco di Stefano), Florentine painter who studied under his father Stefano di Francesco and inherited his studio workshop. His style combined elements from Fra Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Fra Angelico. He appears to have worked with Lippi, who completed the altarpiece The Holy Trinity after Pesellino's death. Pesellino worked with Uccello on battle scenes for the Medici Palace, Florence, and also painted panels for cassone ('bridal chests'). 1453 Pesellino went into partnership with Piero di Lorenzo di Pratese (d 1487) and Zanobi di Migliore, and numerous replicas of popular Virgin and Child compositions by Pesellino were probably produced in this joint workshop for sale on the open market.

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