• Was an Italian painter.
• Antoniazzo Romano was born Antonio di Benedetto Aquilo degli Aquili.
• He wass influenced by Benozzo Gozzoli and Beato Angelico.
• His first recorded work is from 1461, a replica of the miraculous Virgin and Child of St. Luke in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome, for the seignior of Pesaro, Alessandro Sforza.
• From 1464 he worked for the papal court, producing at first a triptych of the Virgin and Child with Saints in Rieti.
• Later he worked to a series of frescoes in the Monastery of Tor de' Specchi in Rome.
• In the years between 1475 and 1480 Antoniazzo's production of altarpieces and panels with images of the Virgin increased as a result of the encouragement of the cult of the Virgin by Pope Sixtus IV.
• Antoniazzo was one of the three founders of the Accademia di San Luca, the guild of painters and illuminators in Rome, and signed the statutes in 1478.
Antoniazzo Romano, Saint Francis of Assisi, ca. 1480
Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2023.
Antoniazzo Romano, Saint Francis of Assisi, ca. 1480
Antoniazzo Romano, The Nativity, 1480s
Original, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Visited in 2017-2023.
Antoniazzo Romano, The Nativity, 1480s
Antoniazzo Romano, Madona and Child, 1490s
Original, Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro. Visited in 2021 
Antoniazzo Romano, Madona and Child, 1490s
