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Antonello da Messina

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Also known as Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, Antonello degli Antoni, An. Da Messina, Antonellus Massaneus, da Messina Antonio, Antonello di Giovanni degli Antonii, Antonello d' Antonio, Antonio da Messina

Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1479)

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Antonello da Messina, born Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio in 1430 in Messina, was a male painter from the Kingdom of Sicily. He worked primarily in the field of oil painting and is associated with the Early Renaissance movement. His artistic career included a focus on portrait painting, and he was a student of Niccolò Antonio Colantonio, who also influenced his work.

Notable works by Antonello da Messina include the San Cassiano Altarpiece, Saint Sebastian, Saint Jerome in His Study, and Calvary. He died in 1479, with records indicating his place of death as Venice and Messina. His legacy is documented in sources such as Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects and The Catholic Encyclopedia.

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Born
1430
Died
1479
Works
8

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Italy
Active from
1430
Active to
1479

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Antonello da Messina (active 1456, died 1479) | National Gallery, London

Antonello was the main early Renaissance painter of southern Italy. He was important in bringing oil painting to Italy according to Vasari; modern scholarship disputes this.He was probably trained in Naples, which had strong links with the Netherlands. Works in oil by Van Eyck and van der Weyden are recorded there from an early date.

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Place of birth
Messina
Place of death
Messina
Occupation
painter
Languages spoken
Italian
Field of work
oil painting
Image
Antonello da Messina - Portrait of a Man - National Gallery London.jpg
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date of birth
1430-00-00
date of death
1479-02-00
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birth name
Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio
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name in native language
Antonello da Messina
has works in the collection
Brukenthal National Museum
name
Antonnello de Messine
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Works in European collections

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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