Italian painter. His first known painting is a fresco, dated 1449, of the Virgin and Child with Sts Anthony of Padua and Anthony Abbot (Camerino, Pinacoteca e Museo Civici). The influence of Piero della Francesca, who was active in Urbino during the late 1440s, is evident in the fresco's dramatic play of light and the geometric simplicity of its figures. On 21 November 1450 Girolamo entered the painters' guild in Padua. His hand was identified by Longhi in the frescoes of St Christopher and the King (destroyed in 1944) in the Ovetari Chapel in the Eremitani, Padua. His arrival in the city just after the death of Giovanni d'Alemagna and the withdrawal of Antonio Vivarini from the contract to decorate the chapel suggests that Girolamo went to Padua in order to apply for the new commission. As a pupil of Giovanni Boccati, Girolamo di Giovanni was an important representative of the art of the Marches in the Quattrocento. //