ALUNNO, Niccor.0 (c. 1430-1502), properly called NiceolO da. 1:align° from his native town, or Niceoli) di Liberatore after his father. An Italian painter of the Early Re naissance, the founder of the Umbrian school. He was burn at Foligno, was a pupil of Benozzo Gozzoli, and was at a later period influenced by Carlo t'rivelli. As the first to reveal fully the emotional Umbrian temperament, in its strange combination of passion and mysticism. he may be termed founder of the school which culmi nated in Raphael. He had good feeling for line and color, and sonic skill in rendering movement. His principal works include an Ma donna" (146.5) in the Brera. which has seven other paintings by him, and his largest altar piece, a polyptych representing the "Coronation of the Virgin" (1466) in the Vii t lean . Others are a processional standard representing the "Annunciation" ( 1466 ) in the Pinacoteca of Perugia; a panel in two compartments at Karls ruhe; altar-pieces at Gualdo-Tadini (1471) and in the Villa Albani. Rome; and a triptych in
the cathedral of Assisi, of noble yet free com position. in his native town there are four paintings by him. From an inseription on one of them, the altar-piece of San Niecoli). bans Alumnus Fulginire," i. e., "Nicholas, a na tive of Foligno," Vasari erroneously christened him Alumna, by which name he is generally known.
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