Stefano Fiorentino (1301–1350) was an Italian painter of the time of

Giotto Giotto di Bondone (; – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, was an List of Italian painters, Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He worked during the International Gothic, Gothic and Italian Ren ...

. Born in

Florence Florence ( ; ) is the capital city of the Italy, Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants, and 989,460 in Metropolitan City of Florence, its metropolitan province as of 2025. Florence ...

, he is mentioned in numerous literary sources, most notably the ''

Lives of the Artists ''The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'' () is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the ...

'' by

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...

; other writers in whose works he appears include

Franco Sacchetti Franco Sacchetti (; 1332 – August 1400), was an Italian poet and novelist. Biography Born in Florence or in Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik), he was the son of Benci di Uguccione, surnamed ''"Buono"'', a Florentine merchant of the noble and ancie ...

and Filippo Villani. No painting of his is known with any certainty to survive. Some of the frescoes in the Cistercian abbey of Chiaravalle, near Milan, were attributed to Stefano and his studio in 2010."Restauro del ciclo di affreschi giotteschi nel tiburio dell’Abbazia di Chiaravalle"
2010: frescoes in the Abbazia ofChiaravalle, Italy, attributed to Stefan

: He died in Florence in 1350. His more famous son was nicknamed "

Giottino Giottino (fl. 1324 – 1369), also known as Tommaso Fiorentino, was an early Italian painter from Florence. His real name was Maso di Stefano or Tommaso di Stefano. Giottino's father, Maestro Stefano Fiorentino, "Stefano the Florentine", wa ...

" in admiring reference to his Giottesque realism.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fiorentino, Stefano 1301 births 1350 deaths 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Florence Trecento painters