(b Rimini, ?c. 1420; d Bologna, 1470). Italian painter. He was first mentioned in the statutes of the painters’ guild of Padua in 1441 and 1442. Documents of 1442 and 1444 show that he had connections with Francesco Squarcione and was already established as an independent painter. He was recorded in Bologna from 1459 to 1470. There he executed a painting of the Virgin and Child (Bologna, Mus. S Domenico) for the Pepoli Chapel, S Domenico, signed and dated 1459, and a Virgin and Child with Two Angels, signed and dated 1461 (London, N.G.). From 1459 until 1464 he was engaged in the decoration (destr.) of the tribune of S Petronio, Bologna; around that time he was also commissioned, with Tommaso Garelli, to fresco the S Brigida Chapel in S Petronio, a commission that appears not to have been carried out. All his other Bolognese works are lost (Filippini and Zucchini).