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Signorelli
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Signorelli (Italian) [siɲɲoˈrɛlli]
n
(Biographies / Signorelli, Luca (?1441-1523) M, Italian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Luca (ˈluːka). ?1441-1523, Italian painter, noted for his frescoes


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AH) Luca Signorelli - Last Judgment (early 1500s) In Signorelli's daunting scenes from the career of the Antichrist, devils fire flame from the air like dive-bombing UFOs.
An example of the tondo in carved, gilded wood is that framing the Sacra Famiglia by Luca Signorelli and also that of the Tondo Doni by Michelangelo in the Uffizi.
The first documented evidence of collaboration between an artist and advisors occurs later, in 1499, when Luca Signorelli (who also worked for Sixtus IV) requested direction from the governing board of the cathedral of Orvieto after finishing the two sections of the south vault that Fra Angelico had left unpainted, but had planned for by leaving drawings, presumably sinopie.
 
 
 
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