Antonello Da Messina

Antonello da Messina ( Messina , c. 1430 - id., 1479 ) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.

Summary 1 Biography 1.1 Formation and early years 1.2 The Artist 2 Works 3 Influences 3.1 Flemish Painting 4 Notes and references 5 See also 5.1 Links Internal External 5.2 Links 5.3 Sources and bibliography

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Formation and early years

Antonello da Messina is the son of Giovanni Antonio mazonus magister (stonecutter or mason) and Garita (Margherita). A letter from the Neapolitan humanist Pietro Summonte the Venetian gentleman Marcantonio Michiel Antonello this as a pupil of the painter Antonio Colantonio , based in Naples : "This The artist

In 1457, Antonello works for his own account and in March, he was commissioned an ensign to the Confraternity of San Michele dei Gerbini of Reggio Calabria. In 1460, he returned to Messina.

The Virgin of the Annunciation in the Museo Civico in Como , the Madonna Forti (Venice, private collection) and the Salting Madonna (London, National Gallery ) are the first works commonly attributed to Antonello young. From his earliest works, he says a personality strong enough to absorb external inputs with profit the most varied. Marked by relatively little local tradition, it will always show, in fact, the greatest originality. The evolution of his style reveals a reconciliation with Piero della Francesca.

It shows from the original St. Jerome in his study (1475). He assimilated the principles of perspective Florentine. The purity and brightness of his work, and the firmness of drawing won him considerable prestige.

The Warlord (1474-1476) remains the most energetic portrait, the more voluntary. The balance, scale, rigor, and fullness are served by chromaticism that anticipate the findings of a Giorgione. The Virgin of the Annunciation (c. 1476-1477) is painted in return trip to Flanders, where the meeting with Jan van Eyck himself brings the discovery of oil technique (such an assertion is unfounded, as Jan van Eyck died in 1441. It probably is based on a fictional story by John Diwo). The sober and modern composition make it a major work of the Italian Renaissance ( Abatellis Palace , Palermo ).

Works

Probable chronology (dates uncertain):

• Virgo Advocata (1452 AC), oil on panel, 57 cm x 39 cm, Como , Pinacoteca Civica.
• Vergine leggente (1460-1462 AC), tempera and oil on panel, 38.7 cm x 26 cm Venice , Mino Forti collection.
• San Girolamo penitente (1460-1465 AC), mixed media on panel, 39.9 cm x 30 cm, Reggio Calabria , Museo Civico.
• Visita dei tre angeli ad Abramo (1460-1465 AC), mixed media on panel, 21.4 cm x 29.3 cm, Reggio Calabria, Museo Civico.
• Leggente Vergine (1461 AC), oil on panel, 43 cm x 34.5 cm, Baltimore , Walters Art Museum.
• Crucifixion (1463-1465 AC), tempera on panel, 39 cm x 23.5 cm, Sibiu , Muzeul National Brukenthal.
• Madonna col Bambino e a Francescano, (front), Cristo in Piet (verso) (ca 1465-1470), tempera on panel, 16 cm x 11.9 cm, Messina, Museo Regionale.
• Ritratto of uomo (1465-1470 AC), tempera on walnut panel, 27 cm x 20 cm, Pavia , Pinacoteca Malaspina.
• Ecce Homo (recto) San Girolamo penitente (back) (1470 AC), tempera on panel, 19.5 cm x 14 cm, New York , private collection.
• Ecce Homo (1470 AC), oil on panel, 40 cm x 33 cm, Genoa , Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola.
• Madonna col Bambino (Madonna Salting) (1470 AC), oil on panel, 43.2 cm x 34.3 cm London , National Gallery.
• Ritratto of Ignoto Marinaio (1470-1472 AC), oil on panel walnut, 30.5 cm x 26.3 cm, Cefalu , Museo della Fondazione Mandralisca.
• Ritratto di giovane (1472-1473 AC), oil on panel, 27 cm x 20.6 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Agostino (1472-1473 AC), transferred on canvas, 46.5 cm x 35.5 cm, Palermo, Sicilia della Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.
• San Girolamo (1472-1473 AC), transferred on canvas, 35.7 cm x 31 cm, Palermo, Sicilia della Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.
• San Gregorio Magno (1472-1473 AC), transferred on canvas, 45.5 cm x 35.5 cm, Palermo, Sicilia della Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.
• Madonna col Bambino e angeli reggicorona (1472-1475 AC), oil on panel, 114.5 cm x 54.7 cm Florence , Uffizi Gallery.
• San Giovanni Evangelista (1472-1475 AC), oil on panel, 105 cm x 33 cm Florence, Uffizi.
• San Benedetto (1472-1475 AC), oil on panel, 105 cm x 43.5 cm, Milan , Castello Sforzesco , Civiche Raccolte Arte.
• Crucifix tra la Vergine e san Giovanni doleful (1473 AC), tempera on panel, 41.9 cm x 25.4 cm London, National Gallery.
• Polittico di San Gregorio (1473 AC), tempera on panel fat, Messina, Museo Regionale.
• Ritratto di giovane (1473-1474 AC), oil on poplar panel, 35.5 cm x 25.5 cm London, National Gallery.
• Ritratto di giovane (1474 AC), oil on walnut panel, 31.5 cm x 26.7 cm, Philadelphia , Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Ecce Homo (1474, oil on panel, 36.7 cm x 28.8 cm, gi di Castello Radoszewnica Collection Ostrowski.
• Ritratto di giovane (1474 AC), oil on poplar panel, 32 cm x 26 cm Berlin , Staatliche Museen.
• Ritratto of uomo (1474 AC), oil on panel, 31.5 cm x 26 cm Vienna , Schwarzenberg collection.
• Annunciation (1474-1475 AC), oil on walnut panel, 180 cm x 180 cm, Syracuse , Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo.
• San Gerolamo nello studio (1474-1475 AC), oil on panel linden, 45.7 cm x 36.2 cm, National Gallery, London.
• Ecce Homo (1475 AC), tempera and oil on poplar panel, 42.5 cm x 30.5 cm, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Crucifixion (1475 AC), oil on panel, 52.5 cm x 42.5 cm, Antwerp , Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten.
• Benedicenti Cristo (1475 AC), oil on panel, 38.7 cm x 29.8 cm London, National Gallery.
• Ecce Homo (1475 AC), oil on panel di Rovere, 43 cm x 32.4 cm, Piacenza , Galleria di Collegio Alberoni.
• Ritratto of uomo (It condottiero) (1475 AC), oil on poplar panel, 36.4 cm x 30 cm Paris, Muse du Louvre.
• Ritratto of uomo (Michele Vianello?) (1475-1476, tempera and oil on panel, 30 cm x 24 cm Rome , Galleria Borghese.
• Ritratto di giovane (1475-1476 AC), olio su su TAVOLETTA incollata compensato, 27.5 cm x 21 cm Madrid , Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
• Madonna col Bambino tra i Santi Nicola di Bari, Lucia, and Orsola Domenico (San Cassiano Altarpiece) (1475-1476 AC), oil on panel, 115 x 65 cm (central panel), 55.9 cm x 35 cm (panel left side), 56.8 cm x 35.6 cm (right panel), Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum.
• Vergine Annunciata (1475-1476), oil on panel walnut, 42.5 cm x 32.8 cm Munich , Alte Pinakothek.
• Cristo morto sostenuto da be angeli (1475-1476 AC), oil on poplar panel, 145 cm x 85 cm Venice , Museo Correr.
• The Dead Christ Supported by an Angel (1475-1478 AC), oil on poplar panel, 74 cm x 51 cm Madrid , Museo del Prado.
• Cristo alla colonna (1475-1479), oil on panel, 29.8 cm x 21 cm Paris, Muse du Louvre.
• Annunciata Vergine (1476 AC), tempera and oil on panel, 45 cm x 34.5 cm, Palermo, Sicilia della Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.
• Ritratto of uomo (1476), oil on poplar panel, 37.4 cm x 29.5 cm, Turin , Museo Civico di Arte Antica.
• San Sebastiano (1476-1477), oil on panel transferred to canvas, 171 cm x 85.5 cm, Dresden , Gemldegalerie.
• Madonna col Bambino (Madonna Benson) (1477-1479 AC), tempera and oil on panel, 58.9 cm x 43.7 cm Washington , National Gallery of Art.
• Ritratto di giovane (1478 AC), oil on walnut panel, 20.4 cm x 14.5 cm Berlin, Staatliche Museen.

Influences

Flemish Painting

Antonello da Messina was one of the first Italian painters to use oil painting that was at the time of the famous Flemish painters. This painting was admired by the kings of Naples , the King Ren to Alfonso of Aragon who owned the largest collection of works by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden . He also developed a taste for small sizes . The gallery below shows some examples of paintings by Antonello da Messina inspired by the painter Jan van Eyck.

Jan van Eyck - St. Jerome in his study	Antonello da Messina - St. Jerome in his study
Jan van Eyck - Man in Blue Riding Hood	Antonello da Messina - Lady of the Annunciation
Jan van Eyck - Man in red turban	Antonello da Messina - Portrait of a Man

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References

See also

Internal Links

• His works in the Uffizi in Florence

Giorgio Vasari cites and describes his biography in The Quick : Page? - 1568 edition