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Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio (c. 1430 – 1479)

• Was a Sicilian painter from Messina. 
• His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting, although there is no documentary evidence that he ever travelled beyond Italy.
• Giorgio Vasari credited him with the introduction of oil painting into Italy.
• Unusually for a south Italian artist of the Renaissance, his work proved influential on painters in northern Italy, especially in Venice.
• Some of his last works remained unfinished, but were completed by his son Jacobello.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Antonello da Messina, The Virgin and Child, c. 1460-9.
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