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GENTILE DA FABRIANO (c. 1370-c. 1450)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 602 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GENTILE DA See also:FABRIANO (c. 1370-c. 1450)  , See also:Italian painter, was See also:born at See also:Fabriano about 1370 . He is said to have been a See also:pupil of Allegretto di Nuzio, and has been supposed to have received most of his See also:early instruction from Fra See also:Angelico, to whose manner his bears in some respects a See also:close similarity . About 1411 he went to See also:Venice, where by See also:order of the See also:doge and See also:senate he was engaged to adorn the See also:great See also:hall of the ducal See also:palace with frescoes from the See also:life of See also:Barbarossa . He executed this See also:work so entirely to the See also:satisfaction of his employers that they granted him a See also:pension for life, and accorded him the See also:privilege of wearing the See also:habit of a Venetian See also:noble . About 1422 he went to See also:Florence, where in 1423 he painted an "See also:Adoration of the Magi" for the See also:church of See also:Santa Trinita, which is preserved in the Florence Accademia; this See also:painting is considered his best work now extant . To the same See also:period belongs a" Madonna and See also:Child," which is now in the See also:Berlin Museum . He had by this See also:time attained a wide reputation, and was engaged to paint pictures for various churches, more particularly See also:Siena, See also:Perugia, See also:Gubbio and Fabriano . About 1426 he was called to See also:Rome by See also:Martin V. to adorn the church of St See also:John Lateran with frescoes from the life of John the Baptist . He also executed a portrait of the See also:pope attended by ten cardinals, and in the church of St See also:Francesco Romano a painting of the " Virgin and Child attended by St See also:Benedict and St See also:Joseph," which was much esteemed by See also:Michelangelo, but is no longer in existence . See also:Gentile da Fabriano died about 1450 . Michelangelo said of him that his See also:works resembled his name, meaning noble or refined . They are full of a quiet and serene joyousness, and he has a naive and See also:innocent delight in splendour and in See also:gold ornaments, with which, however, his pictures are not overloaded .

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