Niccolò Alunno

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Niccolò Alunno (also Niccolo di Liberatore and Niccolò da Foligno) (1430- 1502) was a notable Umbrian painter,

Born at Foligno^[1], the son of a painter and 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 La Diruta, 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, mireading and inscription on the base of his large polyptich 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” ^[2].

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1. ^ Niccolò Alunno - Catholic Encyclopedia article
2. ^ Exhibition of his Work in Urbino.

This article incorporates text from the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.