Francescuccio Ghissi, also called Francesco di Cecco Ghissi, (

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1359 – 1395) was an Italian painter. His exact date of birth and death are not known. Ghissi was an exponent of the

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style, active especially in the

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region of central-eastern Italy. He is known to have worked with

Allegretto Nuzi Allegretto Nuzi or ''Allegretto di Nuzio'' (1315–1373) was an Italian painter, active in a Gothic style mainly around Fabriano, in the Province of Ancona. Biography Nuzi was probably trained in Fabriano Fabriano is a town and ''comune'' of A ...

. He primarily painted religious works for church commissions, but little is known about his activities and works except that of the ''Madonna of Humility'', part of a

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he painted, which now resides as part of the

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National Trust collection. He also has works on display in the Pinacoteca Civica of

Fabriano Fabriano is a town and ''comune'' of Ancona province in the Italian region of the Marche, at above sea level. It lies in the Esino valley upstream and southwest of Jesi; and east-northeast of Fossato di Vico and east of Gubbio (both in U ...

, and painted for the Cathedral of Fabriano. Other paintings are present in

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(Church of Sant'Agostino),

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(Church of Sant'Andrea), and the Pinacoteca of

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. Ghissi also painted the St. John altarpiece, made up of nine different paintings. The center one depicts the Crucifixion, while the eight surrounding it depict stories from the life of St. John the Evangelist. This paintings were sawed apart and separated during the 19th or early 20th century to be sold, and have recently been reunited.

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