church a famous Annunciation (1500). The painting shows the Dominican Cardinal Juan de Torquemada (d. 1468) presenting poor girls dowered by the guild of the Annunciation. The Cardinal Torquemada founded this guild, which was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In the years between 1475 and 1480 Antoniazzo's production of altarpieces and panels with images of the Virgin increased as a result of the encouragement of the cult of the Virgin by Pope Sixtus IV. Around 1480, he painted a single-panel altarpiece for Clemente Brigante Colonna’s chapel in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Tivoli. His later works show an increasing mannerism in their features, which were later imitated by several painters, whose works had been often attributed to the master. Antoniazzo was one of the three founders of the Accademia di San Luca, the guild of painters and illuminators in Rome, and signed the statutes in 1478. His last known work is dated 1497. He is buried in the family chapel in San Luigi dei Francesi A portion of his Madonna and Child with Donor from the Houston, Texas Museum of Fine Arts was chosen as the art masterpiece United States Postal Service's Christmas stamp for 1991. Major works Histories of St. Francesca Romana (1468) Fresco, Tor de' Specchi Monastery, Rome Virgin and Child Enthroned (c. 1470) - Fresco, Santa Maria della Consolazione, Rome Virgin and Child with the Saints Peter and Paul (c. 1474) San Pietro, Fondi, Italy Annunciation (1485) - Wood, Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome Madonna Enthroned with the Infant Christ and Saint (1487) - Oil on panel, 166 x 165 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Andrew (1480–1485) - Tempera on panel, 142 x 176 cm, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome Notes Sources Claudio Rendina, Enciclopedia di Roma, Newton Compton, Rome. Roberto Longhi, In favore di Antoniazzo Romano, «Vita artistica. Studi di Storia dell’arte», 1927, 2, 11–12, p. 250, reprinted in Edizione delle opere complete di Roberto Longhi, vol. II. Saggi e ricerche 1925–28, Firenze, 1967, I, pp. 245– 256 Anna Cavallaro, Antoniazzo Romano e gli antoniazzeschi. Una generazione di pittori nella Roma del Quattrocento, Udine, Ed. Campanotto, 1992 Gerardo de Simone, Melozzo e Roma, saggio in Melozzo da Forlì. L’umana bellezza tra Piero della Francesca e Raffaello, a cura di D. Benati, M. Natale, A. Paolucci, catalogo della mostra (Forlì, Musei S. Domenico, 2011), Silvana Editoriale, 2011, pp. 37–51, e