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Commissioned by Pietro Brancacci
The chapel's construction was commissioned by Pietro Brancacci in 1386 and it was built according to the testamentary dispositions of Pietro Brancacci. Felice Brancacci was in charge of the pictorial decoration, a descendant of Pietro and a prosperous silk merchant who served as the Florentine ambassador in Cairo until 1423. On his return to Florence in 1424 he hired Masolino da Panicale to paint his chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine church.
