People from Messina - Dicaearchus, Antonello Da Messina, Francesco Maurolico, Annibale Maria Di Francia, Pietro Gori, Adolfo Celi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Dicaearchus, Antonello da Messina, Francesco Maurolico, Annibale Maria di Francia, Pietro Gori, Adolfo Celi, Vincenzo Nibali, Emanuele Ferraro, Giuseppe Sergi, Lucia Aliberti, Filippo Juvarra, Giovanni Quagliata, Bernardo Storace, Francesco Paolo Fulci, Eustochia Smeralda Calafato, Stefano Protonotaro da Messina, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Anthony T. Rossi, Scythes, Antonio Martino, Dario Piombino-Mascali, Giuseppe Rizzo, Carmelo D'Anzi, Rosario Presti, Leopoldo de Gregorio, Marquis of Esquilache, Valerio Vermiglio, Arturo De Vecchi, Onofrio Gabrieli, Euphemius, Antonio Barbalonga, Giovanni Corrieri, Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Jordi de Deu, Laura Gonzenbach, Anastasio Cocco, Gaetano Martino, Nino Frassica, Silvia Bosurgi, Girolamo Alibrandi, Giovanni Tuccari, Giovanni Fulco, Mariano Riccio, Placido Campolo, Natale Masuccio, Anna Kanakis, Filippo Tancredi, Antonio Catalani, Antonio Filocamo, Andrea Suppa. Excerpt: Antonello da Messina, properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio (c. 1430 - February 1479) was an Italian painter from Messina, Sicily, active during the Italian Renaissance. His work shows strong influences from Early Netherlandish painting and, unusually for a painter from Southern Italy, he was influential on the art of Northern Italy, especially Venice. Antonello was born at Messina around 1429-1431, to Giovanni de Antonio Mazonus and Garita (Margherita). He was probably apprenticed both in his native city and in Palermo. Around the year 1450, according to a 1524 letter of the Neapolitan humanist Pietro Summonte, he was a pupil of the painter Niccolo Colantonio at Naples, at the time one of the most active centres of Renaissance arts. Around 1455 he painted the so-called Sibiu Crucifixion, which was inspired by the Flemish Calvaries and is housed in the Muzeul de Art in Bucharest. Of the same years is the C...