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DIAMANTE, FRA

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 157 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DIAMANTE, FRA , See also:Italian See also:fresco painter, was See also:born at See also:Prato about 1400. He was a Carmelite See also:friar, a member of the Florentine community of that See also:order, and was the friend and assistant of Filippo See also:Lippi. The Carmelite See also:convent of Prato which he adorned with many See also:works in fresco has been suppressed, and the buildings have been altered to a degree involving the destruction of the paintings. He was the See also:principal assistant of Fra Filippo in the See also:grand frescoes which may still be seen at the See also:east end of the See also:cathedral of Prato. In the midst of the See also:work he was recalled to See also:Florence by his conventual See also:superior, and a See also:minute of proceedings of the See also:commune of Prato is still extant, in which it is determined to See also:petition the See also:metropolitan of Florence to obtain his return to Prato,—a See also:proof that his See also:share in the work was so important that his recall involved the suspension of it. Subsequently he assisted Fra Filippo in the See also:execution of the frescoes still to be seen in the cathedral of See also:Spoleto, which Fra Diamante completed in 1470 after his See also:master's See also:death in 1469. Fra Filippo See also:left a son ten years old to the care of Diamante, who, having received 200 ducats from the commune of Spoleto, as the See also:balance due for the work done in the cathedral, returned with the See also:child to Florence, and, as See also:Vasari says, bought See also:land for himself with the See also:money, giving but a small portion to the child. The See also:accusation of wrong-doing, however, would depend upon the share of the work executed by Fra Diamante, and the terms of his agreement with Fra Filippo. Fra Diamante must have been nearly seventy when he completed the frescoes at Spoleto, but the exact See also:year of his death is not known.

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