Antonello da Messina
Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1479)
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Antonello da Messina was an Italian Renaissance painter from Sicily who lived from 1430 to 1479 and is considered one of the most important artists of his time. He matters because he helped introduce advanced painting techniques from Northern Europe to Italy, particularly the use of oil paint, which allowed for greater detail and luminosity in artworks and influenced how Renaissance painters worked.
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- Born
- 1430
- Died
- 1479
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Capolavori di Antonello da Messina in Sicilia
- Antonello a Napoli
- Oltre lo sguardo
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Antonello da Messina ( Italian pronunciation: [antoˈnɛllo da (m)mesˈsiːna]; c. 1425–1430 – February 1479), properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina, was an Italian painter from Messina, active during the Italian Early Renaissance.
His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting, although there is no documentary evidence that he ever travelled beyond Italy. Giorgio Vasari credited him with the introduction of oil painting into Italy, although this is now regarded as wrong. Unusually for a southern Italian artist of the Renaissance, his work proved influential on painters in northern Italy, especially in Venice.