jueves, 21 de agosto de 2014

Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio

Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio (15th century) was an Italian Renaissance painter belonging to the Camerino school that also included Giovanni Boccati and Girolamo di Giovanni.
Biography
Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio was born in a peasant community in the mountain village of Bolognola between 1415 and 1420. His father was known as Antonio di Domenico "the madman". The first records of Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio date from 1443, after he had just made a trip to Florence that included a meeting with Giovanni di Cosimo de' Medici. After a second visit in 1444, he returned to Camerino to produce his first notable work, Madonna e santi [1] (1445), now at Palazzo di Venezia in Rome. The picture, painted for the church of San Michele Arcangelo di Bolognola at which his brother, don Pietro, was the priest from 1441, shows the influence of the Florentine School and of Filippo Lippi in particular.
In 1449 he was commissioned to work on a fresco for a chapel in Sant'Agostino...

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