Stefano da Ferrara was an Italian painter from Ferrara who active in the latter half of the 15th century.
Biography The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He traveled to Treviso with his brother around 1339, later moving on to Padua, where his Madonna del Pilastro is located in the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua.Baradel, Valentina. "Stefano da Ferrara", Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 94 (2019) It is in the style of the Byzantine icons of Eleousa, mother of Mercy. Additional frescoes in the Chapel of the Ark were lost due to neglect and humidity,Floretta, Paolo. "Stefano da Ferrara", Messaggero di Sant'Antonio, June 11, 2020 and destroyed in 1500 during the renovation of the building by Andrea Briosco.
He is described by Vasari as having been the friend of Mantegna. In the Pinacoteca di Brera are two Madonnas with Saints that are assigned to him; in San Giovanni in Monte in Bologna is a Madonna and Child, with two Angels considered to be by this artist.M. Bryan, 1886–1889, p.488 he worked on the frescoes in the Palazzo della Ragione, Padua.Frick Library, research on Palazzo della Ragione.
Recent studies have identified Stefano Di Benedetto as Stefano da Ferrara.M. Boskovits, Per Stefano da Ferrara, pittore trecentesco, 1994, pp. 56-67 In these studies, the art historian Miklós Boskovits has plausibly attributed the frescos of casa Minerbi - Del Sale to Stefano di Benedetto da Ferrara (not to be confused with his Quattrocento homonym).An. Dunlop, Painted Palace. The rise of secular art in early Renaissance Italy, 2009, p. 93
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References
Miklós Boskovits, Per Stefano da Ferrara, pittore trecentesco, in Hommage à Michel Laclotte: études sur la peinture du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, Milano - Electa; Paris - Réunion des Musées Nationaux, pp. 56–67, 1994, Anne Dunlop, Painted Palace. The rice of secular art in early Renaissance Italy, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009, pp. 91–109.
External links
Anne Dunlop, Allegory, Painting, and Petrarch in Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, 2008