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Luca SignorelliArtworks. View all 92 artworks. Luca Signorelli lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Italian High Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- Italian
- Cortona, Italy
Luca Signorelli (c. 1441/1445 – 16 October 1523) was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece.
- Italian
- Painting
- Gallizia di Piero Carnesecchi
- Early Renaissance
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Art historian, and contemporary of Signorelli, Giorgio Vasari, enthused about the work, "all the scenes of the end of the world with bizarre and fantastic invention - angels, demons, ruins, earthquakes, fires, miracles of Antichrist, and many other similar things besides, such as nudes, foreshortenings, and many beautiful figures; imagining the ...
- Italian
- Cortona, Tuscany
Apr 8, 2024 · Renaissance art. Luca Signorelli (born 1445/50, Cortona, Republic of Florence—died Oct. 16, 1523, Cortona) was a Renaissance painter, best known for his nudes and for his novel compositional devices. It is likely that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesca in the 1460s.
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about 1440/50 - 1523. Image: Luca Signorelli. Signorelli was from Cortona, and by tradition was a pupil of Piero della Francesca. He was active in Cortona, Arezzo, Florence, Rome, Orvieto and other Italian towns. His chief work is a series of frescoes in the cathedral at Orvieto.
Artist Bibliography. Related Content. Display filters. Show 30 60 90 results per page. Vasari, who claimed to be a distant relative of Signorelli, [1] wrote a well-informed biography of the painter, celebrating his fame and success in terms that modern critics consider somewhat overestimated. Luca trained under Piero della Francesca; his ...
Luca Signorelli, The Damned Cast into Hell, 1499-1504, fresco, 23′ wide (San Brizio chapel, Orvieto Cathedral, Orvieto, Italy) (photo: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) Imagine being confronted by this scene—men and women screaming, their nude bodies contorted in pain as they are tortured by garishly colored demons.
