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Niccolò di Liberatore, known as L'Alunno (also Niccolò di Liberatore and Niccolò da Foligno; the name is sometimes spelled Nicolò) (1430–1502) was an Italian painter of the
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n school.


Life and career

He was born at
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, the son of an apothecary. He was a pupil of Bartolomeo di Tomaso; his master's assistant was Benozzo Gozzoli, the pupil of Fra Angelico. The simple Umbrian feeling in his work was somehow modified by this Florentine influence. His earliest known example (dated 1458) is in the Franciscan Church of Deruta, near
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. He painted banners for religious processions, as well as altarpieces and other pictures, died a rich man, and is supposed by Mariotti to have been the master of
Perugino Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous ...
, Pinturicchio, and Andrea di Luigi. Vasari mistakenly attributed some of his works to ''Alunno di Foligno'' or l'Alunno, misreading an inscription on the base of his large polyptych in the church of San Nicolò, where the painter signed himself “Alumnus Fulginiae” or “Nicholaus Alumnus Fulginiae”, which translates correctly as “Nicolò citizen of Foligno”.


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Further reading

* (see index; plate 84)


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Niccolò Alunno on Artcyclopedia
{{DEFAULTSORT:Alunno, Niccolo 1430 births 1502 deaths People from Foligno Umbrian painters 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters