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Stefano da Ferrara

Italian painter

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Stefano da Ferrara
Madonna del Pilastro, Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
Born	Stefano Di Benedetto Ferrara
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Fresco

Stefano da Ferrara was an Italian painter from Ferrara who active in the latter half of the 15th century.

Biography

The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He traveled to Treviso with his brother around 1339, later moving on to Padua, where his Madonna del Pilastro is located in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.^[1] It is in the style of the Byzantine icons of Eleousa, mother of Mercy. Additional frescoes in the Chapel of the Ark were lost due to neglect and humidity,^[2] and destroyed in 1500 during the renovation of the building by Andrea Briosco.

He is described by Vasari as having been the friend of Mantegna. In the Pinacoteca di Brera are two Madonnas with Saints that are assigned to him; in San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna is a Madonna and Child, with two Angels considered to be by this artist.^[3] he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua.^[4]

Recent studies have identified Stefano Di Benedetto as Stefano da Ferrara.^[5] In these studies, the art historian Miklós Boskovits has plausibly attributed the frescos of casa Minerbi - Del Sale to Stefano di Benedetto da Ferrara (not to be confused with his Quattrocento homonym).^[6]

Footnotes

^ Baradel, Valentina. "Stefano da Ferrara", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 94 (2019)
^ Floretta, Paolo. "Stefano da Ferrara", Messaggero di Sant'Antonio, June 11, 2020
^ M. Bryan, 1886–1889, p.488
^ Frick Library, research on Palazzo della Ragione.
^ M. Boskovits, Per Stefano da Ferrara, pittore trecentesco, 1994, pp. 56-67
^ An. Dunlop, Painted Palace. The rise of secular art in early Renaissance Italy, 2009, p. 93

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Ferrara, Stefano da". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
(in Italian) Miklós Boskovits, Per Stefano da Ferrara, pittore trecentesco, in Hommage à Michel Laclotte: études sur la peinture du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, Milano - Electa; Paris - Réunion des Musées Nationaux, pp. 56–67, 1994, ISBN 2711831167
Anne Dunlop, Painted Palace. The rice of secular art in early Renaissance Italy, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, pp. 91–109. ISBN 9780271034089