Antonio da Faenza (either circa 1454 or more likely 1480s - 1534) was an Italian painter and architect active in

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, active in a

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style. The documentation on Antonio da Faenza is confused because, different authors have referred to him by various names including: *Antonio Liberi *Antonio di Mazzone *Antonio Domenichi Some also attempt to identify him with Antonio Gentile, a contemporary goldsmith.

Biography

His first works are now lost but were painted in

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in 1509. The original biographical sketch was by Faenza historian Bernardino Azzurini, who also recalls he wrote an architectural treatise. Among his extant works of painting attributed to Antonio da Faenza are: * ''Annunciation'' (1513), organ doors for Santa Casa di Loreto, now in Pinacoteca del Palazzo Apostolico * ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Paul'' (circa 1516), San Pietro,

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* ''Madonna del Latte with Saints including Roch, James the Major, James the Minor, Firmian, and a donor'' (1525), San Francesco, Montelupone * ''Madonna and Saints'' (1518), Museo della Castellina, Norcia. * ''Madonna and Child and Saints Michael, Sperandia, Ursula, Barbara, and John the Baptist'' (1526), Santa Sperandia, Cingoli, * ''Marriage of the Virgin'' (circa 1526), sacristy of San Esuperanzio, Cingoli * ''Mystical Marriage of St Catherine'', San Michele,

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* ''Enthroned Madonna with Saints Peter, Paul, Dominic, Luke, and Mark'' (1528), Pinacoteca comunale,

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Among his architectural plans were a design for a bell-tower for the Faenza Cathedral and a fountain in Montelupo. Neither was completed. Azzurini in his first biography, noted that Antonio had written a treatise on architecture; however, that it had never been published. In 1991 in London, a codex by Antonio of 122 pages with 640 designs was discovered. Dating from 1516 to 1526, it includes sections on optics, arithmetic, geometry, perspective, color, and architecture. It is presumed a Franciscan scholar residing in Montelupone my have mentored the document.Palladio Museum website
quoting from ''Annali di architettura'', n. 8, title: ''A Newly-Discovered Architectural Treatise of the Early Cinquecento: the Codex of Antonio da Faenza'', by Micheal Bury (1996); pp. 21 - 42.

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15th-century births 1534 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub