Antonello

Antonello OF MESSINA, an Italian painter, born about 1414, who introduced into Italy the Flemish methods of oil-painting, which he had learned from the Van Eycks. He settled about 1473 in Venice, where he gained great renown as a portrait-painter, and died probably in 1493. His chief extant works are a Crucifixion at Antwerp, and a portrait in the Louvre, both of 1475, another portrait in Berlin, of 1478, and a St Sebastian at Dresden.