Filippo di Matteo Torelli (active 1440–1468) was an Italian painter and illuminator. He was a Florentine miniaturist. In the

Laurentian library The Laurentian Library (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana or BML) is a historic library in Florence, Italy, containing more than 11,000 manuscripts and 4,500 early printed books. Built in a cloister of the Medicean Basilica di San Lorenzo di Firenze ...

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

there is a finely illuminated ''Evangelistarium'' by him, with miniatures of the ''Adoration of the Kings'', the ''Crucifixion'', the ''Resurrection''. In conjunction with

Zanobi Strozzi Zanobi di Benedetto di Caroccio degli Strozzi (17 November 1412 – 6 December 1468), normally referred to more simply as Zanobi Strozzi, was an Italian Renaissance painter and manuscript illuminator active in Florence and nearby Fiesole. He was ...

, he illuminated some choir books for the Duomo and for San Marco, in

. These miniatures were in one time wrongly attributed to Fra Benedetto, the brother of

Fra Angelico Fra Angelico (born Guido di Pietro; February 18, 1455) was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance, described by Vasari in his '' Lives of the Artists'' as having "a rare and perfect talent".Giorgio Vasari, ''Lives of the Artists''. Pengu ...

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* Quattrocento painters Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters Painters from Florence 1440 births 1468 deaths Manuscript illuminators {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub