Benedetto Nucci

Benedetto Nucci ([1515-1587) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period.

Biography

He was born in Cagli. He was a pupil of Pietro Paolo Baldinacci in Gubbio, province of Umbria. Benedetto married his master's daughter, Orsolina, in 1549. He did not train with Raffaellino dal Colle, as reported, but was highly influenced by Raphael. He painted a Madonna and Child with Saints (1570) for the Cathedral in Gubbio.[1]

Among his pupils were his son (or brother)[2] Virgilio (trained also in Rome with Daniele da Volterra, and died in Gubbio in 1621); Mario Marioni; Giovanni Maria Baldassini (active 1540-1601); Bernardino Brozzi (1555-1617); and one of the more prominent painters of Gubbio, Felice Damiani.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Lanzi, Luigi (1847). Thomas Roscoe (translator), ed. The History of Painting in Italy: The Florentine, Sienese, and Roman schools. I. York St, Covent Garden, London: Henry G. Bohn. p. 427.
  2. ↑ Virgilio may be Benedetto’s brother according to Lanzi.
  3. ↑ Memorie e guida storica di Gubbio, by Oderigi Lucarelli, Stab. Tipografia Literaria S. Lapi, (1888), Citta di Castello, page 446-447.