Andrea da Murano, also known as Andrea di Giovanni (active 1463 to 1502) was an

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painter, active mainly in Venice and the Venetian mainland. Polyptych Gallerie dell'Accademia

Biography

In 1468, he was given, along with

Bartolomeo Vivarini Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo Vivarini (c. 1432c. 1499) was an Italian Renaissance painter, known to have worked from 1450 to 1499. Biography Bartolomeo's brother Antonio Vivarini, and his nephew (also possibly his pupil) Alvise Vivarini, were als ...

, a commission for painting a canvas for the

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. In 1472, he is known to have had a studio with his brother, the engraver Girolamo, located in the neighborhood of

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. He painted an altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria di Trebaseleghe in

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. In 1499, he was living in Castelfranco. In 1502 he painted an altarpiece for the parish church of

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in the province of Vicenza. A triptych depicting ''Saints Sebastian, Vincent Ferrer, Roch, and four others with St Peter and the Madonna della Misericordia'' (1475) is attributed to Andrea and found in the

Gallerie dell'Accademia The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a museum gallery of pre-19th-century art in Venice, northern Italy. It is housed in the Scuola della Carità on the south bank of the Grand Canal, within the sestiere of Dorsoduro. It was originally the gallery o ...

of Venice, deriving from the church of San Pietro Martire of Murano.Encyclopedia Treccani
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 3 (1961), entry by Camillo Semenzato.

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