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Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo
(b Siena or Cortona, c. 1400; d Siena, 1 April
1450). Italian painter and illuminator, sienese school. He was the most original painter in
Siena in the 15th century. Working within the Sienese tradition, he introduced
elements derived from the decorative Gothic style and the realism of such
contemporary Florentine innovators as Masaccio. Most of his surviving works are
panel pictures, notably those from the altarpiece painted for S Francesco, Borgo
San Sepolcro.