GUGLIELMO FANTINI DA CHIERI (?) (Chieri, c. 1400 ? - c. 1466) Saint Anthony Tempera on panel with gold ground, 93.5x35 cm Fantini can be considered one of the most important artists of western Piedmont active during the first half of the 15th century. His art was particularly influenced by Giacomo Jaquerio, but in him one can observe Mediterranean suggestions and also a comparison with the works of Barnaba da Modena, Andrea de Aste, inevitable influences of his uncle Giovanni Fantini and relations with the author of the 'Fountain of Youth' at the Manta Castle (Romano, 1992- L. Debernardi, Il ciclo quattrocentesco del Castello della Manta. Considerazioni sull'interpretazione iconografica, nuove acquisizioni, in Opera Nomina Historiae 8, 2013, Giornale di cultura artistica, pp. 175-276). From these data we can therefore assess the European vocation that the city of Chieri expressed during the 15th century by virtue of a patronage that supported an international culture and that was best expressed in the Duomo building site in which Fantini was a protagonist together with his uncle Giovanni and collaborators. Reference bibliography: M. Natale, Una scheda piemontese: 1435, in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Federico Zeri, Milan 1984, I, pp. 81-92 R. Passoni, Painting in Italy. Il Quattrocento. Pittura del Quattrocento in Piemonte ed in Valle d'Aosta, Milan 1986, pp. 25-26 G. Romano, Momenti del Quattrocento chierese, in Arte del Quattrocento a Chieri. Per i restauri del Battistero, edited by Michela Di Macco, Giovanni Romano, Turin 1988, pp. 11-32 G. Romano, Per un eroe senza nome: il Maestro della Manta, in La sala baronale del castello della Manta, Milan 1992, p. 4s. G. Romano, Primitivi piemontesi nei musei di Torino. Da Giacomo Pitterio ad Antoine de Lonhy, Turin 1996, pp. 161-172