Antonello da Messina and his workshop

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Antonello da Messina (ca. 1430--1479) is renowned for his oil painting mastery, his influence on the Netherlandish style in northern Italy, and for introducing new artistic trends in Venice during the mid-1470s. After his untimely death in 1479, his son Jacobello, along with cousins Antonio and Pietro de Saliba and Salvo d'Antonio, continued to produce works based on Antonello's compositions for a northern Italian audience from their Venice workshop for the next fifteen years. By the mid-1490s, they returned to Sicily, where they maintained the master's style well into the sixteenth century. The workshop's output reflects the enduring appreciation for Antonello's art after his passing. This study delves into the four workshop members, utilizing contracts, wills, payment records, and paintings to reconstruct their activities in northern and southern Italy. It emphasizes the relationship between prototypes and copies during their Venetian period, particularly through two series of small devotional paintings. The catalogue raisonné offers detailed entries of all known works by the workshop's members, representing the first comprehensive overview of their production. Thomas Skorupa, who studied art history and literature in New York and Berlin, completed his doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin with this dissertation and currently works as an editor in Berlin.