(b ?Hungary, c. 1400; d Ferrara, before 28 July 1464). Painter, active in Italy. He was one of the most important painters at the court of Ferrara in the mid-15th century and contributed to the creation of an indigenous Ferrarese style of painting. Most of his works have been destroyed. He may have been born in Hungary, as his name implies. There are parallels between his style and that of contemporary painters working in Hungary, but nothing is known of his early career. The suggestion that he can be identified with a Michele dai Unii, paid in 1415 for painting a standard for Leonello d’Este, seems untenable, but the Michel da Ungaria, recorded as one of Gentile da Fabriano’s assistants working in the Strozzi Chapel in the sacristy of Santa Trìnita, Florence, in 1423, may be the same artist.