This is Fra Diamante

Fra Diamante (c. 1430 – c. 1498) was an Italian Renaissance painter.

Born at Prato, he was a Carmelite friar, a supporter of the Florentine community of that order, and was the buddy and assistant of Filippo Lippi. The Carmelite convent of Prato which he adorned as soon as many works in fresco has been suppressed, and the buildings have been altered to a degree involving the destruction of the paintings. He was the principal co-conspirator of Lippi in the large frescoes at the east grow less of the cathedral of Prato. He furthermore collaborated in the Funeral of St. Jerome panel in the similar church.

In the midst of the achievement he was recalled to Florence by his conventual superior, and a minute of proceedings of the commune of Prato is yet extant, in which it is Definite to petition the metropolitan of Florence to get your hands on his return to Prato, a proof that his allocation in the enactment was as a result important that his recall involved the postponement of it. Subsequently, he assisted Filippo in the deed of the frescoes in the cathedral of Spoleto, which Fra Diamante completed in 1470 after his master’s death in 1469.

Lippi left a son ten years old (the future artiste Filippino Lippi) to the care of Diamante, who, having established 200 ducats from the commune of Spoleto, as the explanation due for the work done in the cathedral, returned taking into account the child to Florence, and, as art biographer Giorgio Vasari says, bought estate for himself following the money, giving but a small portion to the child. The accusation of wrongdoing, however, would depend upon the part of the work executed by Fra Diamante, and the terms of his consent with Lippi. Fra Diamante must have been approximately seventy subsequent to he completed the frescoes at Spoleto, but the correct year of his death is not known.

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