Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (1406–1486)

• Was an Italian painter.
• He was also known as Lo Scheggia, or "the Splinter".
• Was brother of the famous Masaccio.

• Born in San Giovanni in Altura, now San Giovanni Valdarno.

• He moved with his family to Florence in 1417.

• Between 1420 and 1421 he came into relationship with Lorenzo Bicci, probably as an assistant in his workshop.

• In 1426 he was registered in Pisa as a guarantor for his brother Masaccio, and he refused his brother's inheritance in 1428.

• In 1429 the artist had his own workshop in Florence in the parish of Sant'Apollinare. 

• In 1430 he joined the Guild of Saint Luke.

• He joined the "Guild of the Legnaioli" as a "forzerinario", or chest maker; then in 1433 he matriculated in the Art of Doctors and Apothecaries.

• Between 1436 and 1440 he provided the cartoons for the inlays of the Sacristy of the Florentine Cathedral. 

• In these years, he manufactured luxury furniture especially for the clients in town and in the country he produced altarpieces and frescoes.

• In 1449 on the occasion of the birth of Lorenzo de' Medici Lo Scheggia painted the Desco da parto with the Triumph of Fame now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

• Lo Scheggia died in 1486 and was buried in the basilica of Santa Croce.

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