ALFANI, DOMENICO and ORAZIO. — Painters. DOMENICO, born in Perugia ca. 1480, died after 1553, a collaborator and friend of Raffaello, painted after the master’s design the Eternal Father on the upper panel of Raffaello’s Deposition, now in the Borghese Gallery in Rome, and a Holy Family in the gallery of Perugia. Raphaelian influences are also evident in the Madonna of 1518 in the gallery of Perugia and in those of the cathedral of Città della Pieve (1521), while the large altarpiece in the Pinacoteca of Perugia, dated 1534, representing the Virgin with the Child and Saints, which is his best-known work, reveals the influence of Giulio Romano and Fra Bartolomeo. A mediocre and cold painter, in his final work he ended by weakly repeating the hackneyed formulas of the Michelangelesques.
ORAZIO, son of Domenico, born in Perugia ca. 1510, died in Rome in 1583. A collaborator of his father, he worked in Sicily from 1539 to 1544. Among the works executed after his return to Perugia, we may mention the Legend of SS. Peter and Paul and the Resurrection for the church of the Benedictines. The style of his paintings, of a quality even inferior to that of his father, is related to the Florentine Mannerists.