Matteo da Gualdo or Matteo di Pietro di Ser Bernardo (

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, circa 1435-1440 - 1507) was an Italian painter, active in

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, and

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Biography

He likely trained under the painter from Foligno,

Bartolomeo di Tommaso Bartolomeo di Tommaso, also known as Bartolomeo da Foligno (born in Foligno, c. 1400, active by 1425, died 1453–54) was an Italian painter of the Umbro-Sienese school. Life and career He was in Ancona from 1425 to 1442, when he returned to F ...

, and Girolamo di Giovanni di Camerino. He was influenced by

Piero della Francesca Piero della Francesca (, also , ; – 12 October 1492), originally named Piero di Benedetto, was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. To contemporaries he was also known as a mathematician and geometer. Nowadays Piero della Francesca ...

Andrea Mantegna Andrea Mantegna (, , ; September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in ord ...

, and Niccolò di Liberatore. In 1462, he painted the

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of ''Santa Margherita''; and in 1471, a triptych: both now in the Rocca Flea Museo Civico. He painted an ''Encounter of a young St John the Baptist with St Anne'' now found at the Pinacoteca of Nocera Umbra. His son Girolamo and grandson also became painters.Tadino Gualda commune
biography.

Gallery

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with Saints

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and

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'' File:Matteo da gualdo, trittico di pastina di gualdo, 1477, 01.jpg, '' Trittico di Pastina di Gualdo'' File:Matteo da gualdo, stimmate di san francesco, 14963.jpg, '' Stimmate di San Francesco''

References

1430s births 1507 deaths People from Gualdo Tadino 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Umbrian painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub