Filippo di Matteo Torelli (active 1440–1468) was an Italian painter and

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. He was a Florentine miniaturist. In the Laurentian library in

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there is a finely illuminated ''Evangelistarium'' by him, with miniatures of the ''Adoration of the Kings'', the ''Crucifixion'', the ''Resurrection''. In conjunction with

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, he illuminated some choir books for the Duomo and for San Marco, in

. These miniatures were in one time wrongly attributed to Fra Benedetto, the brother of

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* Quattrocento painters Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence 1440 births 1468 deaths Manuscript illuminators {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub