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Antonio da Fabriano II (1420-c.1490)

• Was an Italian painter, active in the Region of Marche.
• He was a feeble assistant of Gentile da Fabriano. 
• He is suspected to be the same Antonellus de Fabriano living in Genoa in 1447-1448, and married to an Albanian woman.
• In Genoa, he may have encountered a work of St Jerome by Jan van Eyck
• A fresco of St Bernardino (1451) at the church of San Francesco at Gualdo Tadino in attributed to Antonio.
• Documentation notes that in 1451 Antonio was paid for gilding candlesticks for Fabriano Cathedral.