Fra Antonio da Negroponte
Italian painter
Fra Antonio da Negroponte was an Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period, active mainly in Padua and Venice. He painted in a Quattrocento style that resembles that of Bartolomeo Vivarini. Among his works are a Madonna and Child Enthroned for a chapel in the church of San Francesco della Vigna in Venice.
References
Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 112.
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