Arcangelo di Cola (active 1416–1429) was an Italian painter, active throughout central Italy in a late Gothic style. He was born in Camerino, but it is unknown where he trained, but was influenced by Gentile da Fabriano. He was known in 1416 to be painting frescoes in the Palazzo comunale of

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. In 1420, he had been inscribed in the guild of painters in

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. He painted in 1421 a canvas now lost for the Florentine church of

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. In 1422, he was recruited by

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to Rome, then sent to fresco the Oratory of the Annunziata at

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in the region of the

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. He is best known for a triptych (1425) painted for the Monastero dell'Isola in Marche. In 1899, the piece was dismembered and sold.Enciclopedia Italiana
1929), entry by Luigia Maria Tosi.

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