Some recent critiques have better pinned down the activity in Genoa, and Liguria as a whole, of Andrea da Ciona and Filippo Solari da Carona. Their work was fundamental to the development of wood carving in the mid fifteenth century. A series of works that have come down to us reveal the influence that the two Maestri Caronesi had on the Genoese circle of artists. As yet, it has been impossible to attribute any one of the homogenous group of works to one particular known artist. Andrea and Filippo’s example was fundamental to the development of Giovanni di Andrea da Bissone. His early years have been pieced together by confronting his first documented or previously attributed works.