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1441 - 1523. Known for: Paintings of Christian religious figures, saints and madonna.
Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona, (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter, best... Read full biography
Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona, (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil... Read full biography
Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona, (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca in the 1460s. The first certain surviving work by him, a fragmentary fresco (1474) now in the museum at Città di Castello, shows a strong influence from Piero. His first signed... Read full biography
Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona, (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca in the 1460s. The first certain surviving work by him, a fragmentary fresco (1474) now in the museum at Città di Castello, shows a strong influence from Piero. His first signed work was a processional banner with a Madonna on one side and a Flagellation on the other; these hang in the Brera, Milan, as separate pictures. They still show links with the style of Piero, but the dominant influence is that of Florence and... Read full biography
Luca Signorelli, in full Luca d’Egidio di Ventura de’ Signorelli, also called Luca da Cortona, (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona), Renaissance painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca in the 1460s. The first certain surviving work by him, a fragmentary fresco (1474) now in the museum at Città di Castello, shows a strong influence from Piero. His first signed work was a processional banner with a Madonna on one side and a Flagellation on the other; these hang in the Brera, Milan, as separate pictures. They still show links with the style of Piero, but the dominant influence is that of Florence and especially the scientific naturalism of the Pollaiuolo brothers, which suggests that Signorelli visited Florence in the 1470s. In 1479 he was elected... Read full biography