ANTONIO da MONZA. – Miniaturist, perhaps also engraver, a Franciscan active in Milan at the end of the 15th century. His only known work is a signed leaf from a pontifical book, formerly belonging to Alessandro VI and now in the Albertina in Vienna, representing the Pentecost. The miniatures in the Vita of Giacomo Sforza in the National Library of Paris may also be attributed to him; as well as a Pontifical, Cod. Ottoboniano in the Vatican Library; the Book of Hours of Bona di Savoia in the British Museum in London; and a diploma in S. Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Stylistically, he derives from the followers of Leonardo, particularly Luini.
BIBL.: P. K., s. V. in Thieme-Becker, II, pp. 1–2; F. Malaguzzi Valeri, Sul miniatore frate A. da M., in Rass. d'arte antica e mod., 3 (1916), p. 28 ff.; E. Aeschlimann, s. V. in Dist. des miniaturistes, Milan 1940, p. 10. Angelo Lipinsky