Nicola da Guardiagrele (born Nicola Gallucci or Nicola di Andrea di Pasquale; c. 1385/1390Page a
Abruzzo region official website
– c. 1462) was an Italian late medieval goldsmith, painter and etcher.

Biography

Born at

Guardiagrele Guardiagrele (; Abruzzese: ; la, Guardia Graelis) is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Chieti, part of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. It is in the foothills of the Maiella mountain at an elevation of around . Its population numbers ...

, in what is now the province of Chieti, he was primarily influenced by Gothic art and by the contemporary Tuscan school of artists such as Lorenzo Ghiberti. He worked mostly as goldsmith, with numerous works dated and signed, although also sculptures and a panel painting are also attributed to him. His first known works, the cross of Roccaspinalveti and two

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, date from 1413–1418. Together with

Paolo Romano Paolo Romano, also known as Paolo Tuccone and as Paolo di Mariano di Tuccio Taccone was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith. He was active by 1451, and probably died by 1470.Getty ULAN Giorgio Vasari in his '' Lives of the Most Exc ...

and Pietro Paolo da Todi he had executed the twelve silver apostles which were in the Papal chapel before the

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. His other works include the antependium in the Cathedral of Teramo, an illuminated prayer book from c. 1420 (now at the Musée Condé) and a ''Madonna dell'Umiltà'' at the Uffizi. A sculpted ''Annunciation'', of debated attribution, is at the

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in Florence. He died at Guardiagrele around 1462.

References

External links

Page at Abruzzo region official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guardiagrele, Nicola da 1385 births 1460s deaths People from the Province of Chieti 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 15th-century Italian painters Italian goldsmiths