Two Plates in Nicola de Urbino's Correr Service

Nicola da Urbino (ca. 1480 – 1540/1547) formerly confused with Nicola Pellipario has traditionally been designated as the

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from Castel Durante in

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who introduced into painted

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the new ''istoriato'' style, in which the whole surface of a plate or charger is devoted to a single representational scene. Nicola's scenes were often derived by freely adapting woodcuts from Romances or the Latin classics, such as the illustrated Ovid's ''

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'' printed at Venice, 1497, to which he returned so often that it appears that a copy of it must have lain in his shop; however, he did not merely copy: "the often crude outlines of the black-and-white figures are converted by him into embodiments of supple vitality," Bernard Rackham observed. Later he gave up book illustrations in favour of compositions of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

, mediated through the engravings of

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, and, in at least one case, by direct access to a drawing by

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, seen from the rear.Francis Ames-Lewis, "Nicola da Urbino and Raphael" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 130 No. 1026 (September 1988), pp. 690-692. Nicola often introduced prominently pieces of schematic and severely frontal architecture in the Renaissance manner. His plate of ''Solomon Adoring an Idol'' in the

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adapts an illustration from '' Hypnerotomachia Poliphilii.''

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Pellipario, Nicola Italian potters 1480s births 1540s deaths {{Italy-artist-stub

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