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| Antonello da Messina Virgin Annunciate (detail) ca. 1475 oil on panel Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo |
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| Antonello da Messina Virgin Annunciate ca. 1475 oil on panel Galleria Regionale della Sicilia, Palermo |
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| Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Man (Il Condottiere) 1475 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Antonello da Messina Christ at the Column ca. 1475-79 oil on panel Musée du Louvre |
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| Antonello da Messina Madonna and Child enthroned with St Nicholas of Bari, St Anastasia, St Ursula and St Dominic 1475-76 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
"Antonello da Messina – Outstanding, if ill-documented, painter from Messina in Sicily. His mature works combine an Italian sense of volumetric structure with Netherlandish technique, notably in the treatment of light and iconography. He was prized as a master of the small, bust-length portrait in the Netherlandish mode. Exceptionally, he was also able to work both on the monumental scale of large altarpieces and, for private collectors, on a minute scale approaching that of miniatures. . . . An independent master in Messina by 1457, Antonello is said to have been apprenticed in Naples to Colantonio, an able imitator of Netherlandish painting. Since original works by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, as well as by their Burgundian, Provençal and Spanish followers, were available for study in Naples, scholars have abandoned earlier hypotheses of a trip to the Netherlands, although a voyage to central and northern Italy during 1465-71, when Antonello could have absorbed the influence of Piero della Francesca and Mantegna, is still thought likely. A stay in Venice 1475-76 is well documented. . . . A close interaction between Antonello and Giovanni Bellini is universally acknowledged, although scholars disagree as to which artist most influenced the other."
– Erica Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)
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| Antonello da Messina Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist 1475 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Antonello da Messina Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist 1475 oil on panel Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp |
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| Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Young Man 1478 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Man ca. 1476 oil on panel Museo Civico d'Arte Antica, Turin |
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| Antonello da Messina St Sebastian ca. 1478 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Antonello da Messina St Sebastian (detail) ca. 1478 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Antonello da Messina St Sebastian (detail) ca. 1478 oil on panel, transferred to canvas Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden |
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| Antonello da Messina Dead Christ supported by an Angel ca. 1475-76 tempera and oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Antonello da Messina St Jerome in his Study ca. 1475 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Antonello da Messina Portrait of a Man ca. 1475-76 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Antonello da Messina Virgin Annunciate ca. 1473 oil on panel Alte Pinakothek, Munich |