ANTONIO. - Son of Michele, a glassmaker, he is mentioned in numerous Venetian documents from 1446 to '66; he died between 1476 and 1484. In his first and most important period, he painted alongside his brother-in-law Giovanni d'Alemagna (v.), producing numerous works in Venice and Padua, where he appears inscribed in the painters' guild in 1447: the polyptych of St. Jerome, formerly in S. Stefano (1441, Vienna Museum), that of St. Monica in the same church (five small panels of the Saint survive in the Museums of Murano and Detroit, in the Lee collections in Richmond and Keester in London, and in the Carrara Gallery in Bergamo), the three anchors of the chapel of St. Tarasio in S. Zaccaria (1443-44), the Coronation of the Virgin in S. Pantaleone (1446), the solemn Madonna with Saints of the Scuola della Carità (1446, now in the Accademia), the polyptych formerly in S. Francesco in Padua, now in Konopište (1447). Critics have attempted to distinguish the two personalities of the authors without reaching convincing results to date, given that there are no certain works by the Alemagna, nor is the only painting signed solely by Antonio in this
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