Initial D: Saint John the Baptist

Creator

Italian Illuminator · 1492–1523

Matteo da Milano was one of the most important Italian illuminators working in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries. Originally from Milan, Matteo worked largely in Rome and Ferrara. His wide range of powerful patrons included the Este family of Ferrara, the Medici of Florence, the Orsini of Rome, and the della Rovere, dukes of Urbino. He specialized in making manuscripts for highly ra