Messina, Antonello da (1430c.-1479) - 1476 Portrait of a Man (Civic Museum, Turin, Italy)

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Messina, Antonello da (1430c.-1479) - 1476 Portrait of a Man (Civic Museum, Turin, Italy)
Messina, Antonello da (1430c.-1479) - 1476 Portrait of a Man (Civic Museum, Turin, Italy)

Born in Sicily, the painter for a long time was famed for having introduced oil painting to the Italian art. “Once this new secret that Antonello had brought from Flanders into the city of Milan had been understood, Antonello was admired and cherished by those magnificent noblemen for as long as he lived,” wrote Giorgio Vasari. Alexander Rauch in The Art of the Italian Renaissance states, however, that Antonello da Messina did not, as Vasari reports, go to Flanders and there become ‘a friend of Johannes’ (i.e. Jan van Eyck), and then return to Italy to share the secret. “It is much more likely that he is in fact identical with one Antonello di Sicilia, who, at the beginning of 1456 in Milan, was in contact with Netherlandish painter Petrus Christus, from whom he adopted the new method of painting.”

Antonello da Messina was trained in the cosmopolitan environment of Naples of the 1450s, where, which is more probable, he encountered Flemish art. From his earliest work, Antonello combined Flemish attention to detail with an Italian sense of geometric space. The high point of his career was his stay in Venice between 1474-76, where he introduced Netherlandish painting and produced works of enormous power.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonello_da_Messina

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