Antonello da Messina

Antonello da Messina (c. 1425–1430 – 1479) was a Sicilian painter of the Early Renaissance, born in Messina. Around 1450 he trained in Naples under Niccolò Colantonio, where he absorbed Netherlandish oil technique. He became a master painter at Messina, and his early paintings combined Flemish influences with Italian attention to the volume of figures.

In Venice from 1475 to 1476, he painted the San Cassiano Altarpiece and the Condottiero, passing oil technique to Giovanni Bellini and the Venetian school. He died at Messina in 1479.