INGEGNO, ANDREA D'ALOIGI D'ASSISI, so called. – Umbrian painter whose personality still remains insufficiently defined; the reconstruction attempted by certain scholars does not always seem to rest on very secure foundations, since works of certain attribution are lacking.
The catalogue of the paintings attributed by A. Venturi to I. is based on documentary evidence and on Vasari’s statements, which identify him as the best of Perugino’s pupils, deploring that an eye disease brought his brilliant career to an end. In the documents he is mentioned as a painter from 1484 to 1490, when he collaborated with Perugino on the cathedral of Orvieto; from 1501 to 1516, on the other hand, he appears to have held administrative offices in Assisi.
BIBL.: Gronau, s. V. in Thieme-Beker, XVIII, pp. 592–93 (with earlier bibliography); R. van Marle, The development of the italian schools of painting, XIV, The Hague 1933, pp. 498–500. Maria Donati