Giovanni di Francesco del Cervelliera or Giovanni di Francesco (1412 – 1459),

• Was an Italian painter, active in Florence.
• Giovanni di Francesco was born in Florence.
• Giovanni was the nephew of Giuliano di Jacopo Lorino and the cousin of Jacopo di Antonio, both painters.
• In 1450 Giovanni di Francesco accused Fra Filippo Lippi of failure to pay him for his collaborative work in the restoration of a painting of Giotto.
• The two worked together again in 1455.
• Between 1455 and 1459, Giovanni painted Nativity and Adoration of the Magi as a predella, or part of a predella, of an unidentified altarpiece.
• It is now housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris. 
• Giovanni di Francesco del Cervelliera died on September 28, 1459.

• He was buried in the church of San Ambrogio.

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