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Antonello da Messina: 1430–1479

Early RenaissanceItaly

Other names (22)

A. di Messina, An. Da Messina, Ant. da Messine, Ant. de Messine, Antonella di Messina, Antonelli de Meseina, Antonelli di Messina, Antonello, Antonello Da Messina, Antonello d' Antonio, Antonello degli Antoni, Antonello de Messina, Antonello de Messine, Antonello di Giovanni degli Antonii, Antonello di Messina, Antonello ou Antoine de Messine, antonello von messina, Antonellus Massaneus, Antonio da Messina, da Messina Antonello, da Messina Antonio, preésumé de Antonello Da Messina Antique

Biography

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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Influenced by

Piero della Francescaeditorial inference
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Niccolò Antonio Colantonioeditorial inference
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Giovanni Bellinieditorial inference
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Jan van Eyckeditorial inference
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Rogier van der Weydeneditorial inference
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Niccolò Antonio Colantonioeditorial inference
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Later influence

Vittore Carpaccioeditorial inference
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Bartolomeo Venetoeditorial inference
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Cima da Coneglianoeditorial inference
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Bartolomeo Montagnaeditorial inference
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Source spelling Vivarni reconciled to Alvise Vivarini; personal apprenticeship not asserted. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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