Antonio Da Fabriano - St Jerome in His Study - WGA00769

Antonio da Fabriano (active in mid 15th century) was an Italian painter, active in the Region of Marche. The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. A ''Coronation of the Virgin'' in the Casa Morichi is attributed to him; and also a ''St

Jerome Jerome (; ; ; – 30 September 420), also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian presbyter, priest, Confessor of the Faith, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. He is best known ...

,'' with the date 1451, in the Fornari Gallery at

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, is now in the Walters Art Gallery. He was a feeble assistant of

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. He is suspected to be the same ''Antonellus de Fabriano'' living in

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in 1447-1448, and married to an Albanian woman. In Genoa, he may have encountered a work of St Jerome by

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. A fresco of ''St Bernardino'' (1451) at the church of San Francesco at

Gualdo Tadino Gualdo Tadino (Latin: ''Tadinum'') is an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Monte Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is NE of Perugia. History Gualdo has a long history and was o ...

in attributed to Antonio. Documentation notes that in 1451 Antonio was paid for gilding candlesticks for Fabriano Cathedral.From Filippo Lippi to Piero Della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master
edited by Keith Christiansen; (2005) page 232.

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Attribution: * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fabriano, Antonio da Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Quattrocento painters Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters