biography
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Signorelli, Luca
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also known as Luca da Cortona
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pronunciation:
[seenyawrelee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1441–1523)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Cortona, C Italy. He painted many frescoes at Loreto, Rome, Florence, Siena, Cortona, and Orvieto, where the cathedral contains his greatest work, the frescoes of ‘The Preaching of Anti-Christ’ and ‘The Last Judgment’ (1500–4). He was one of the painters summoned by the Pope in 1508 to adorn the Vatican, and dismissed to make way for Raphael. |
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