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Fabriano

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Fabriano

Town in Le Marche region, east-central Italy, 60 km/37 mi southeast of Ancona at the eastern end of the Apennines; population (1991) 28,700. Industries include bricks, kitchen furniture, and foodstuffs. There is an ancient parchment and paper-making industry, begun in the 13th century. Fabriano has a 14th-century bishop's palace.



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Looking at both, you get wistful for the days when draughting was about semi-edible hand-made Fabriano paper and the time-honoured T square/set square/Rapidograph combo.
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Knowledge of the eastern designs is also documented by religious paintings (for example, Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi) and portraits (Bronzino, Eleonora di Toledo).
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Painting: Saint Nicholas Saves a Ship From the Storm, by Gentile da Fabriano (e.
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