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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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