Antonio da Fabriano (active in mid-15th century) was an Italian painter active in the Marche region of central Italy. The exact dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He is known primarily through a small number of attributed works and documentary records.
His most notable surviving work is Saint Jerome in His Study (1451), now held at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. A Coronation of the Virgin in the Casa Morichi is also attributed to him. A fresco of St. Bernardino (1451) at the church of San Francesco in Gualdo Tadino is likewise attributed to Antonio.
Documentary evidence records that in 1451 Antonio was paid for gilding candlesticks for Fabriano Cathedral. He has been described as a "feeble assistant" of the more renowned painter Gentile da Fabriano (c. 1370–1427), though the nature and extent of this association remain unclear.
Scholars have speculated that Antonio da Fabriano may be the same person as one Antonellus de Fabriano, who is recorded living in Genoa in 1447–1448 and was married to an Albanian woman. If this identification is correct, he may have encountered works by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck during his time in Genoa, which could have influenced his style.
Antonio da Fabriano is considered among the more interesting Marchigian painters of his generation for the synthesis his work strikes between the perspective-driven approach of Italian Renaissance art and the optical naturalism of Netherlandish painting.
