Alesso Baldovinetti, apprenticed as a youth to…

Alesso Baldovinetti, apprenticed as a youth to Domenico Veneziano and influenced by Fra Angelico, has made important contributions to landscape painting.

The Florentine painter and mosaicist has won renown for his elegant Annunciation, painted in 1447, and the Madonna and Child painted around the same time, when he is about thirty-five.

A follower of the group of scientific realists and naturalists in art which includes Andrea del Castagno, Paolo Uccello and Domenico Veneziano, Baldovinetti uses precisely drawn elongated figures and subtle gradations of tone and light to produce paintings that combine sophistication and naiveté.