Gentile da Fabriano (78 works)

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Gentile da Fabriano (Italian: Gentile da Fabriano, actually Italian: Gentile di Niccolo di Giovanni Massi, c. 1370, Fabriano, province of Ancona - September 1427, Rome) - Italian painter, the largest representative of international Gothic in Italy.

Biography
He grew up an orphan (his mother died, his father went to a monastery and soon also died). He studied in his hometown with the minor artist Allegretto Nuzi, probably became close in his youth with one of the other Siena masters and quickly achieved great fame.

He worked in Central Italy - in Brescia, Venice, Florence, Siena, Orvieto and Rome, where from 1426 until his death he was engaged in decorating the Lateran Cathedral with frescoes depicting scenes from the life of John the Baptist.

According to one assumption, he was buried in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Trastevere.

Creation

The frescoes in San Giovanni in Laterano, as well as works of the same kind by Gentile in other places (for example, in the Venetian Palazzo Doge) perished. One can get an idea of his talent only from the few easel paintings of his work that have come down to us, of which the most remarkable are “The Adoration of the Magi” (one of the best examples of international Gothic), “The Coronation of Mary” and “The Flight into Egypt”.

Their main advantages are the liveliness of the composition, carefully designed, delicate drawing, nobility and expressiveness of the figures, and the freshness of the colors. With the delicacy of his modeling of faces, the gentle pallor of their carnation and the ability to animate them with a sense of piety, Gentile is reminiscent of Fra Beato Angelico.

Gentile had a significant influence on contemporary painting, especially Venetian painting, through his student Jacopo Bellini.

Literature

L'opera completa di Gentile da Fabriano/Emma Micheletti, ed. Milano: Rizzoli, 1976
De Marchi A.e.a. Gentile da Fabriano: studi e ricerche. Milano: Electa, 2006.