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ANTONELLO DA See also:MESSINA (c. 1430-1479) , See also:Italian painter, was probably See also:born at See also:Messina about the beginning of the 15th See also:century, and laboured at his See also:art for some See also:time in his native See also:country . Happening to see at See also:Naples a See also:painting in oil by See also:Jan See also:Van See also:Eyck, belonging to See also:Alphonso of See also:Aragon, he was struck by the peculiarity and value of the new method, and set out for the See also:Netherlands to acquire a knowledge of the See also:process from Van Eyck's disciples . He spent some time there in the See also:prosecution of his art; returned with his See also:secret to Messina about 1465; probably visited See also:Milan; removed to See also:Venice in 1472, where he painted for the See also:Council of Ten; and died there in the See also:middle of See also:February 1479 (see Venturi's See also:article in Thieme2Becker, Kiinstlerlexikon, 1907) . His See also:style is remarkable for its See also:union—not always successful—of Italian simplicity with Flemish love of detail . His subjects are frequently single figures, upon the See also:complete See also:representation of which he bestows his utmost skill . There are extant—besides a number more or less dubious—twenty See also:authentic productions, consisting of renderings of Ecce Homo," Madonnas, See also:saints, and See also:half-length portraits, many of them painted on See also:wood . The finest of all is said to be the nameless picture of a See also:man in the See also:Berlin museum . The See also:National See also:Gallery, See also:London, has three See also:works by him, including the " St See also:Jerome in . his Study." Antonello exercised an important See also:influence on Italian painting, not only by the introduction of the Flemish invention, but also by the transmission of Flemish tendencies . |
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