Stefano da Ferrara was an Italian painter from

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who active in the latter half of the 15th century.

Biography

The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He is described by

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as having been the friend of

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. He filled the chapel of the Santo at

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with frescoes, which were destroyed in 1500 during the renovation of the building by

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. In the

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are two ''Madonnas with Saints'' that are assigned to him; in San Giovanni in Monte in

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is a ''Madonna and Child, with two Angels'' considered to be by this artist. he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua. Recent studies have identified Stefano Di Benedetto as Stefano da Ferrara. In these studies the art historian Miklós Boskovits has plausibly attributed the frescos of casa Minerbi - Del Sale to Stefano di Benedetto da Ferrara (not to be confused with his Quattrocento homonym).An. Dunlop, ''Painted Palace. The rise of secular art in early Renaissance Italy'', 2009, p. 93

Footnotes

References

* * Miklós Boskovits, ''Per Stefano da Ferrara, pittore trecentesco'', in ''Hommage à Michel Laclotte: études sur la peinture du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance'', Milano - Electa ; Paris - Réunion des Musées Nationaux, pp. 56–67, 1994, *

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, ''Painted Palace. The rice of secular art in early Renaissance Italy'', The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, pp. 91–109.

External links

Anne Dunlop, ''Allegory, Painting, and Petrarch'' in ''Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry'', 2008
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