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Jacopo del Sellaio [Jacopo di Arcangelo di Jacopo]
(b Florence, c. 1441; d Florence, 1493). Italian painter. He is first mentioned in his father’s catasto (land registry declaration) of 1446 as a child of five. By 1460 he had joined the Compagnia di S Luca in Florence, and in October 1473 he appears in their records sharing a studio with Filippo di Giuliano ( fl 1473–91). His first documented commission, of 10 December 1477, was for two panels with an Angel Annunciate and a Virgin Annunciate for S Lucia dei Magnoli in Florence (in situ; see fig.). For the same church he was asked to clean and restore a painting of St Lucy (in situ) usually attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti. Sellaio’s paintings show a brittle, linear technique and a light, pastel palette, clearly indebted to Botticelli. Vasari describes both Sellaio and Botticelli as fellow pupils of Fra Filippo Lippi.
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