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[Domenico di Francesco] (b ?1417; d Florence, April 18, 1491). Italian painter. He took his name from his teacher, a carver in bone and ivory named Michelino. He was elected to the Compagnia di S Luca in 1442 and joined the Arte dei Medici e degli Speziali on 26 October 1444. In 1459 he received payment from Lorenzo Pucci for a processional banner (untraced) for a confraternity based in S Francesco, Cortona. Four years later he was paid for some figures of saints (untraced) for a cupboard belonging to the Compagnia di S Maria della Purificazione e di S Zanobi, a Florentine confraternity of which he had been a member since 1445. Domenico’s only surviving documented work is the painting of Dante Reading from the ‘Divine Comedy’ (see fig.) in the north aisle of Florence Cathedral, where Lenten readings from the Divine Comedy had been held since at least 1432. On 30 January 1465 Domenico was charged by the ...