Lorenzo D'Alessandro
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Lorenzo d’Alessandro (c. 1455 – 1503) was an Italian painter and interpreter of late gothic style. He is known by different authorities and authors by different names, including: *Lorenzo da San Severino or Sanseverino *Lorenzo d’Alessandro da Sanseverino *Lorenzo Salimbeni


Biography

He was born in
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. He painted in the ''salimbenian'' style inherited from the Salimbeni brothers, also from San Severino Marche; and influenced another important local painter,
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, also known as “L'Alunno” (from
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, who lived two years in San Severino and painted there a polyptych signed in 1468). Lorenzo was also inspired by
Carlo Crivelli Carlo Crivelli (Venice, c. 1430 – Ascoli Piceno, c. 1495) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivari ...
and
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. D’Alessandro blended the typical elements of the late Gothic culture and of the Renaissance in his expressive style. Among his pupils is
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of Perugia, and his children: Antonio, Giangentile, and Severino.Memorie storiche delle arti e degli artisti della marca di Ancona
Volume 1, by Marchese Amico Ricci, page 111-112. He painted frescoes in Chiesa della Maestà, San Severino Marche. Three of his paintings are displayed in the
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in San Severino Marche, including the Nativity, the Madonna with Child, and the Pietà.


Gallery

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Gothic painters Italian Renaissance painters 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters 1455 births 1503 deaths Year of birth unknown {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub