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Luca Signorelli (1450-1523)

Aliases: Luca d'Egidio di maestro Ventura de'Signorelli; Luca di Gilio; Luca "da" Cortona Signorelli

Professions: Painter

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    Luca Signorelli (Cortona c . 1450-1523 ?)

    Luca Signorelli (Cortona c . 1450-1523 ?)

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    LUCA SIGNORELLI AND STUDIO

    LUCA SIGNORELLI AND STUDIO

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    * LUCA SIGNORELLI, AND STUDIO CORTONA CIRCA 1450 - 1523

    * LUCA SIGNORELLI, AND STUDIO CORTONA CIRCA 1450 - 1523

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    Un évêque vu de profil, tourné vers la gauche

    Un évêque vu de profil, tourné vers la gauche

Luca Signorelli Biography

(b Cortona, c. 1450; d between Oct and Dec 1523). Italian painter and draughtsman. Overcoming the handicap of lifelong residence in the provincial town of Cortona, in the 1480s he obtained early recognition as a leading artist in central Italy from fellow artists and major patrons, including Pope Sixtus IV and Lorenzo de’ Medici. Yet rapid evolution of taste, dominated by a sense of constant progress in truth to nature, led to his eclipse, beginning in the 1490s, together with his contemporaries Botticelli and Perugino, in favour of younger masters such as Filippino Lippi and Leonardo da Vinci. He was still respected for his skill in anatomical drawing and the expressive and dramatic effects for which he used it; this most notably produced Michelangelo’s homage to Signorelli (Vasari reported that Michelangelo praised his frescoes at Orvieto highly and borrowed certain motifs from them for his Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel, Rome).

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    Luca Signorelli

    Luca Signorelli (Cortona 1450-1523)

  • Luca Signorelli and Studio , Cortona circa 1450 - 1523 The Madonna and Child with Saints Bernard(?), Anthony of Padua and John the Evangelist(?) circular, oil on panel, in an 18th Century Italian frame , Luca Signorelli, Click for value View Details

    Luca Signorelli

    Luca Signorelli and Studio , Cortona circa 1450 - 1523 The Madonna and Child with Saints Bernard(?), Anthony of Padua and John the Evangelist(?) circular, oil on panel, in an 18th Century Italian frame

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