DE LITIO, ANDREA. - Abruzzese painter of the second half of the fifteenth century. In the church of S. Maria Maggiore at Guardiagrele there is a fresco with the image of s. Cristoforo bearing his name and the date 1473.
On stylistic grounds, the cycle of frescoes covering the vault and walls of the main chapel of the cathedral of Atri, with figures of the Evangelists and Doctors of the Church and scenes from the life of the Virgin, has been attributed to the same painter. The work, fairly unified despite the evident intervention of assistants, reveals a lively personality formed through contact with the Ferrarese and Umbrian-Marchigian currents. A number of isolated frescoes in the same Cathedral, and one in S. Agostino, likewise at Atri, belong to him; a few other works in Abruzzo have also been attributed to him, though on less solid grounds.