The dates of his birth and death are uncertain. He traveled to
Treviso with his brother around 1339, later moving on to Padua, where his
Madonna del Pilastro is located in the
Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua. It is in the style of the Byzantine icons of
Eleousa, mother of Mercy. Additional frescoes in the Chapel of the Ark were lost due to neglect and humidity, and destroyed in 1500 during the renovation of the building by
Andrea Briosco. He is described by
Vasari as having been the friend of
Mantegna. In the
Pinacoteca di Brera are two
Madonnas with Saints that are assigned to him; in
San Giovanni in Monte in
Bologna is a
Madonna and Child, with two Angels considered to be by this artist. he worked on the frescoes in the
Palazzo della Ragione, Padua. Recent studies have identified
Stefano Di Benedetto as
Stefano da Ferrara. In these studies, the art historian
Miklós Boskovits has plausibly attributed the frescos of casa Minerbi - Del Sale to Stefano di Benedetto da Ferrara (not to be confused with his Quattrocento homonym). ==Footnotes==