Evangelista da Pian di Meleto (circa 1460 – 1549) was an

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painter of the

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period. He was born in

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in Umbria. In 1488, he was working along with

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, the father of Raphael, in Piandimeleto. Along with

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, he painted the altarpiece of San Nicola da Tolentino for the church of Sant'Agostino in

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. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. Some of the unsigned works of Giovanni Santi may be in fact by Evangelista.Comune of Pian di Meleto
short biography.

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