\paperw19995 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
This Italian painter was trained in Venice and was soon drawn into Paduan artistic circles, as he shared the ar
tistsÆ enthusiasm for the works of Donatello and Mantegna. Forced to leave Venice after being imprisoned for adultery, he moved to Zara in Dalmatia (now Zadar, Croatia), but by 1468, and at least up until 1494, he was active in the Marche, where he ran a
n important workshop that produced polyptychs for the churches and monasteries of the region. His art is characterized by the originality of its style, which fuses the new, Renaissance style of a distinct modeling of volumes with late Gothic decorative c