Ferranti, Decio and Agostino

Ferranti, Decio and Agostino two miniature painters, very celebrated in their day, flourished at Milan in 1500. In the cathedral at Vigevano are three of their works, consisting of a Missal, a Book of the Four Evangelists, and a Book of the Epistles, illuminated with miniature pictures and ornaments in the most exquisite taste. See Spooner, Biog. Hist. of the Fine Arts, s.v.; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.