Antonello da Messina
02.07.2020
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Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni[1] and Anglicized as Anthony of Messina (c. 1430 - February 1479), was a Sicilian painter from Messina, active during the Early Italian Renaissance. Unusually for a south Italian artist of the Renaissance, his work proved influential on painters in northern Italy, especially in Venice.