Niccolò Alunno
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Niccolò di Liberatore, known as L'Alunno (also Niccolò di Liberatore and Niccolò da Foligno; the name is sometimes spelled Nicolò) (1430–1502) was an Italian painter of the Umbrian school.
Life and career
He was born at Foligno,{{cite Catholic Encyclopedia |wstitle=Niccolò Alunno |volume=1 |first=Augustus |last=Van Cleef}} the son of an apothecary. He was a pupil of Bartolomeo di Tomaso; his master's assistant was Benozzo Gozzoli, the pupil of Fra Angelico. The simple Umbrian feeling in his work was somehow modified by this Florentine influence. His earliest known example (dated 1458) is in the Franciscan Church of Deruta, near Perugia. He painted banners for religious processions, as well as altarpieces and other pictures, died a rich man, and is supposed by Mariotti to have been the master of Perugino, Pinturicchio, and Andrea di Luigi.
Vasari mistakenly attributed some of his works to Alunno di Foligno or l'Alunno, misreading an inscription on the base of his large polyptych in the church of San Nicolò, where the painter signed himself “Alumnus Fulginiae” or “Nicholaus Alumnus Fulginiae”, which translates correctly as “Nicolò citizen of Foligno”.{{Cite web |url=http://en.umbriaonline.com/nicolaus_pictor.phtml |title=Exhibition of his Work in Urbino. |access-date=2007-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061209181002/http://en.umbriaonline.com/nicolaus_pictor.phtml |archive-date=2006-12-09 |url-status=dead }}
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References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |author =Pope-Hennessy, John |author-link =John Pope-Hennessy |author2=Kanter, Laurence B.| title= The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings |url=http://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15324coll10/id/190122/rec/1 | location=New York, Princeton | publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press | year=1987| isbn=0870994794}} (see index; plate 84)
External links
{{Commons category|Niccolò di Liberatore}}
- [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/niccolo_di_liberatore.html Niccolò Alunno on Artcyclopedia]
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Category:15th-century Italian painters
Category:Italian male painters