Francesco d’Antonio Zacchi, also known as ''il Balletta'' (c. 1407 – before 1476), was an
Italian painter of the late-
Gothic
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People and languages
*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
and early-
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...
style active in
Viterbo
Viterbo (; Viterbese: ; lat-med, Viterbium) is a city and ''comune'' in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo.
It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early history. ...
, region of
Lazio
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, Italy. He is also called Francesco d'Antonio da Viterbo.
Biography
Documents have him working from 1430-1467 near Piazza
Santa Maria Nuova in Viterbo, a church which houses a fresco of the ''Crucifixion with the Madonna and Saints John the Baptist, Ambrosius, and others''.
Other details of his life are poorly documented, his style shows the influence of the Sienese
Bartolo di Fredi
Bartolo di Fredi (c. 1330 – 26 January 1410), also called Bartolo Battiloro, was an Italian painter, born in Siena, classified as a member of the Sienese School.
Biography
He had a large studio and was one of the most influential painters wor ...
and
Taddeo di Bartolo.
Among his works are a
polyptych, depicting the ''Enthroned Madonna and Child with Saints'' (1441) painted for San Giovanni in Zoccoli in Viterbo. Another polyptych depicts the ''Virgin and child enthroned with Saints Rose and Catherine of Alexandria'' painted for the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa. In 1464, he was commissioned to gild and paint the coat of arms of Pope
Calixtus III for the Castle of Viterbo. A fresco of the Virgin is found in the church of
San Biagio, Tuscania.
[Museo Civico of Viterbo, biography of artists.]
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1406 births
1470s deaths
People from Viterbo
Painters from Lazio
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Italian Renaissance painters
Gothic painters