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Leonardo (de’ Molinari) da Besozzo [Bissucio; Bisuccio]
( fl 1421–81). Italian painter and illuminator. Son of the Lombard painter MICHELINO DA BESOZZO, he is documented in 1421 as his father’s assistant in Milan Cathedral. Shortly afterwards he travelled south, arriving in Naples by 1438, when he painted the panel depicting St Anthony of Padua (Naples, S Lorenzo), of which only the crown of angels at the top remains. In S Giovanni a Carbonara (Naples), probably towards the end of the 1430s, he worked in the chapel of Sergianni Caracciolo, painting scenes from the Life of the Virgin and scenes of Hermitic Life, with the painter Perrinetto da Benevento and assistants. Leonardo can be credited with the Nativity, inscribed below with his name, the Annunciation, the Coronation of the Virgin and the last of the Hermit scenes. Probably later, in the same church, Leonardo also painted some figures of saints in the Mausoleum of King Ladislas. From 1454 Leonardo is documented as court painter to Alfonso of Aragon, King of Naples. In 1458 he frescoed the ceiling (destr.) of the Camera degli Angeli in the tower of Beverello at Castelnuovo, Naples.
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