Gentile Da Fabriano, an Italian painter of the Roman school, born at Fabriano about 1370, died in Rome in 1450. Michel Angelo said that his name Gentile, the noble or delicate, was in harmony with the character of his works. About 1418 he painted in the cathedral of Orvieto a Madonna, which still exists, and which was so much admired that the artist received the title of magister magistrorum. He then went to Venice, where he obtained great success, and was invited to Rome, where his paintings in the church of St. John Late-ran, which his infirmities did not permit him to finish, made him esteemed the first painter of Italy. His manner resembles that of Fra Angelico.