Gentile da Fabriano
(Italian, ca. 1370−1427)
Place ActiveRome, Italy, Europe
SchoolItalian
BiographyGentile was born in Fabriano, near Urbino. Nothing is known of his youth or education, which may have been as peripatetic as his subsequent career. He is first recorded in 1408 in Venice, and he also worked in Brescia and probably in other North Italian towns. About 1420 he moved to Tuscany, receiving important commissions from churches and great families of Siena, Florence, and Orvieto. By 1427 he had left for Rome, where he worked for Pope Martin V and members of the papal court.Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
