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Gentile de Fabriano
Painter
Gentile de Fabriano is first recorded in 1408, when he was in
Venice. In 1409 he was working on historical frescoes in the Doge's Palace
which were later finished by Pisanello but were subsequently destroyed. From
1422 to 1425 he was in Florence where he completed, in May 1423, the
resplendent altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi, now in the Uffizi. This was
one ot the masterpieces ot the International Gothic style and exerted enormous
influence on Florentine art; it was followed by the Quaratesi Altarpiece, completed
in May 1425, of which the Madonna is now in the Royal Coll. and the remainder
divided between the Uffizi, the Vatican and Washington.
In 1425 he left
Florence and worked in Siena and Orvieto, and by 1427 he was working on
frescoes in the Lateran Basilica in Rome, which have also been destroyed. His
art is the charming, elegant and courtly art of
the International Gothic style;
he shows little or no interest in the intellectual problems of space and volume
which exercised Masaccio, who was working in Florence at precisely the
same time (compare Gentile's Madonna in the Royal Coll. with Masaccio's Pisa
Polyptych Madonna, in the NG, London).
There are other pictures by him in
Berlin, Ferrara, Florence (Pitti, I Tatti), Malibu Cat. (Getty), Milan (Brera,
Poldi-Pezzoli), New York (Met. Mus., Frick Coll.), Orvieto, Paris (Louvre:
part of the Uffizi Adoration), Perugia, Pisa, Velletri, Vienna, Washington (N G)
and Yale (Univ.).
Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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