Fra Carnovale
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Fra Carnovale (c. 1420-1425 - 1484) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento, active mainly in Urbino.
He is cited by a number of names including Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini or Fra' Carnevale or Bartolomeo Coradini.
He was born in Urbino, and entered the order of Dominicans in 1449 under the name of Fra’ Carnevale or Carnovale. He was a pupil of the Ferrarese painter Antonio Alberti. Farquhar claims he was the teacher of Giovanni Santi. Between 1445-1446, he worked in the studio of Filippo Lippi in Florence. He is cited by Vasari in his Vite as Carnovale da Urbino. He also was an architect for the portals of San Domenico in Urbino.
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- Biography in Italian.
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 28.
