Antonello da Messina
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"That Antonello imparted to Domenico Veneziano the secret of oil-painting has been doubted. Among the best- known pictures of Antonello we may mention : the Salvator Mundi ( No. 673) in the National Gallery, signed and dated 1465 - purchased at Genoa of Cavaliere Isola ; a Portrait in the possession of the Duke of Hamilton, dated 1474 ; ' a Portrait in the Louvre, dated 1475 ; a Crucifixion , in the Ertborn Gallery, Antwerp, also 1474 ; a Portrait in the Berlin Museum ; a Triptych, in San Gregorio at Messina, dated 1473, probably the last picture which the artist painted in that town ; and a Dead Christ, in the Belvedere, Vienna. Antonello's painting was a curious blending of the styles of Italy and Flanders ; generally speaking, his portraits were far superior to his religious subjects."--A Brief History of the Painters of All Schools (1877) by Louis Viardot |
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Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio (c. 1430 — February 1479) was a Sicilian painter active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of North Italy, especially Venice.
