Paolo Schiavo (Paolo di Stefano Badaloni) (1397 - 1478)
• Was a Florentine painter.
• His pseudonym was Paolo di Stefano Badaloni.
• Born in Florence.
• Paolo Schiavo enrolled in the Arte dei Medici e Speziali in 1428.
• According to Vasari, he was a follower of Masolino.
• Schiavo dedicated a lot of his later works to Masolino.
• Among his dedications were frescoes of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints (1436), of The Crucifixion Adored by Nuns (1447-8) and of the Adoration of the Magi, the Annunciation and various saints.
• In 1435 he went to Castiglione Olona with Masolino da Panicale where he realized the first section of the apse right wall.
• He died in Pisa.
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