Arcangelo di Cola (active 1416–1429) was an

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painter, active throughout central Italy in a late Gothic style. He was born in

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, but it is unknown where he trained, but was influenced by

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. He was known in 1416 to be painting frescoes in the Palazzo comunale of

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. In 1420, he had been inscribed in the guild of painters in

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. He painted in 1421 a canvas now lost for the Florentine church of

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. In 1422, he was recruited by

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to Rome, and putatively sent to fresco the Oratory of the Annunziata at

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in the region of the

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. He is best known for a triptych (1425) painted for the Monastero dell'Isola in Marche. In 1899, the piece was dismembered and sold.Enciclopedia Italiana
1929), entry by Luigia Maria Tosi.

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