Antonello da messina biography of william

          Series I. Conservation.

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          Biography

          Italian painter who probably introduced oil painting and Flemish pictorial techniques into midth-century Venetian art. Vasari says that Antonello brought the 'secret' of oil painting to Venice.

          While this is probably untrue, his San Cassiano altarpiece was certainly influential, for several younger Venetian artists borrowed directly from it and Giovanni Bellini admired the modelling of its figures.

          St. jerome in his study (dürer 1521)

        1. Antonello da messina crucifixion
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        3. St jerome in his study (antonello da messina) analysis
        4. Fu il principale pittore siciliano del Quattrocento, primo nel difficile equilibrio di fondere la luce, l'atmosfera e l'attenzione al dettaglio della pittura.

          5. His practice of building form with colour rather than line and shade greatly influenced the subsequent development of Venetian painting.

          Little is known of Antonello's early life, but it is clear that he was trained in Naples, then a cosmopolitan art centre, where he studied the work of Provençal and Flemish artists, especially that of Jan van Eyck.

          His earliest known works, a Crucifixion (c. ; Museum of Art, Sibiu) and St Jerome in His Study (c. ; National Gallery, London), already show Antonello's characteristic combination of Flemish technique and realism with typically