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Apollonio Buonfratelli

Italian painter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4780399 ↗
Source-derived summary

Apollonio Buonfratelli (16th century) was an Italian miniature painter of the Renaissance, active in Florence.

References

Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 200.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Apollonio, Buonfratelli and Italian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Apollonio Buonfratelli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.