FABRIANO, GENTILE DA, an historical painter, was born at Verona in 1332, and became a disciple of Giovanni da Fiesole. He soon acquired a considerable reputation, and was employed to adorn a great number of churches and palaces at Florence, Urbino, Siena, Perugia, and Rome. His picture of the Virgin and Child attended by Joseph, which is preserved in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, was highly commended by Michael Angelo. At the request of the doge and senate of Venice he painted a picture in the great council-chamber, which was considered so excellent that his employers granted him a pension for life, and conferred upon him the highest honour of their state, namely, the privilege of wearing the habit of a Venetian noble. He died in 1412.