ALUNNO, NICCOLÒ (NICCOLÒ di LIBERATORE). - Painter, b. at Foligno ca. 1430, d. there in 1502. From his earliest work, the panel painted in 1458 at Deruta for the church of the Franciscans, the naturalism that characterizes the most authentic Umbrian tradition appears in full, even if in external ways.

In 1465, with his father-in-law Pietro Mazzaforte, A. painted the polyptych for Cagli, now at Brera; in 1466 that of Montelpare (Vatican): and in these, and in other panels, the undeniable influence of Benozzo Gozzoli's paintings in Montefalco is gradually softened through the contacts he had in the Marches with the works of the Vivarini and of Carlo Crivelli. At Gualdo Tadino (1472), in the church of St. Francis, a polyptych with more than fifty images represents his masterpiece. We shall also recall the Albani polyptych of 1475 and the great altarpiece (Coronation of the Virgin) of St. Nicholas of Foligno (1492), where the original Tuscan-Venetian balance that undoubtedly constituted the greatest merit of this painter's art fails.

ALUNNO, NICCOLÒ - Polyptych - Vatican, Pinacoteca.(phot. Alinari)

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BIBL.: S. Frenfanelli Cibo, N. A. e la Scuola Umbra, Rome 1872; U. Gnoli, Pittori e miniatori nell'Umbria, Spoleto 1923.

Marcello Dussio

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