COLA dell'Amatrice. — Nicola Filotesio, known as dell'Amatrice from his birthplace, was an Abruzzese painter and architect. He spent most of his life in Ascoli Piceno in the first half of the 16th century. The earliest record of him dates to 1514. In 1521, he was granted citizenship in Ascoli and appointed public architect. Traces of this activity remain in Ascoli in the monument to Paul III and the rear façade of the Palazzo del Popolo, and in L'Aquila in the beautiful church of S. Bernardino. The last record concerning him is from 1547.
His personality as a painter first emerged within the Marches circle of Carlo and Vittore Crivelli, whom he may have encountered through Pietro Alamanno: the *S. Giacomo della Marca* in the Galleria Nazionale of Urbino, the *Four Saints* in the church of S. Angelo Magno in Ascoli, and the polyptych with the Virgin, the Dead Christ, and four saints in the Pinacoteca of the same city, all attest to his faithful adherence to the Crivelleschi style. Later, his works show clear knowledge of Umbrian masters and the great artists of the time, including Michelangelo. Notable examples include the *Polyptych* in the Pinacoteca of Ascoli, dated 1514, and the *Assumption* in the Vatican Pinacoteca, dated 1515.
Cola dell'Amatrice — *The Assumption of the Virgin* (1515) — Vatican, Pinacoteca.
