Gentile da Fabriano

[jen-tee-ley duh fab-ree-ah-noh, jen-tee-le dah fahbryah-naw]

noun

1. 1370?–1427, Italian painter.

Gentile da Fabriano

/ dʒenˈtiːle da fabriˈɑːno /

noun

1. original name Niccolo di Giovanni di Massio . ?1370–1427, Italian painter. His works, in the International Gothic style, include the Adoration of the Magi (1423)

Example Sentences

Originally a gilded processional standard that would be paraded through town on a pole for specific feast days, Gentile da Fabriano’s dazzling double-sided painting shows the coronation of the Virgin Mary on one side and, on the other, St. Francis receiving the stigmata.

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In Gentile da Fabriano’s 1423 “Adoration of the Magi,” a famous biblical scene, the golden halos of Mary and Joseph are inscribed with Arabic letters, in a strikingly harmonious overlap of cultures and religions.

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A priest’s wine-colored velvet chasuble decorated in designs of gold thread and thick, dimensional embroidery connects religious pageantry with the International Gothic style of an adjacent Sienese painting by Gentile da Fabriano.

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The 1st Room has an interesting collection of the early schools, including Madonnas of Filippo Lippi; Luca Longhi; Botticelli; Gentile da Fabriano; Innocenza da Imola; a curious Crucifixion, by Jacopo d'Avanzo; and a portrait by Giovanni Sanzio, father of Raphael.

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Gentile da Fabriano died about 1450.

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