"Antonello da Messina and the Early Renaissance in Southern Italy"

Who doesn’t love discovering a new artist? Or rediscovering one, especially if his works

are little known to the general public but are truly beautiful and pathbreaking? Welcome

to the world of Antonello da Messina (1430-1479), a native of the Sicilian city after

which he took his name. Antonello learned about oil painting from Flemish artists

working in Naples, the cosmopolitan capital of all Southern Italy (then known as the

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). He then went on to promote the new medium throughout