Giovanni Angelo d'Antonio

[1] After a second visit in 1444, he returned to Camerino to produce his first notable work, Madonna e santi [2] (1445), now at Palazzo di Venezia in Rome.

[1] The picture, painted for the church of San Michele Arcangelo di Bolognola at which his brother, don Pietro, was the priest from 1441, shows the influence of the Florentine School and of Filippo Lippi in particular.

[1] It is hypothesised that he may have made a visit to Padua with his friend and fellow Camerino school painter Giovanni Boccati, which would explain the change in his style in the 1450s.

[1] His most significant work is considered to be the Annunciazione [3] from the convent at Spermento, most likely commissioned by Elisabetta Malatesta da Varano, and painted between 1455 and 1456.

He returned to work in his small home town to fresco a Madonna and child with various saints in a roadside shrine near Bolognola.