Benedetto Bonfigli
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Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420–July 8, 1496) was an Italian painter of the Quattrocento born in Perugia, and active around Umbria. He was the teacher of the painter Pietro Perugino.
The most important of his extant works are a series, in fresco, of the life of St Louis of Toulouse, in the Palazzo Comunale (town hall) of Perugia; a gonfalon by him is prized for its contemporary view of Perugia. In Perugia, he painted the Adoration of the Kings (1460) for the church of San Domenico; he also painted frescoes of Sant Ercolano and San Ludovico (1454) for the Palazzo del Consiglio.
He died in Perugia in 1496.
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- Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006, page 28.
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