"[2] This was the first time the feminine form of the word "painter" appears in Florentine public records and the first formal recognition of a fifteenth-century woman artist.
[4] Her grandfather, a barber-surgeon, had immigrated from Pratovecchio and was of middle social status whereas her grandmother belonged to the old Florentine del Beccuto family.
[7] Santa Maria degli Angeli (on the site of San Frediano in Cestello) was founded c. 1450–1460, and the smaller Nunziatina house appeared in May 1453.
Several small-scale devotional paintings from Paolo Uccello's workshop have been attributed to her when she was identified as the "Karlsruhe Master," but most scholars now reject this hypothesis.
[11] These include the Adoration (Karlsruhe, Germany), the Hyland Madonna, dated 1470–1475 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu), the Thebaid (Academy Gallery, Florence), and a predella from the Beata Giulia of Certaldo Altarpiece (Museum of Sacred Art, Church of Saints Jacopo and Filippo, Certaldo).