Ottaviano Nelli, about (1370-about 1444)

• Was an Italian painter of the early Quattrocento.
• Nelli painted frescoes and also panel paintings.
• He was born in Gubbio in Umbria.
• His father was the painter Martino Nelli.
• He was active there and in Perugia (1400), Urbino, Assisi, and Foligno.
• Among his pupils was his brother Tommaso, Domenico Di Cecco di Baldi, Giovanni Pintali, Giacomo Di Bedo, and Ubaldo Di Matteo.
• Nelli was "consul" (a local government representative) for the Sant'Andrea district of Gubbio in 1440.
• The painters Gentile da Fabriano and Giovanni Sanzio were influenced by Nelli.
• Austen Henry Layard wrote that Nelli's easel paintings were "far inferior to his works in fresco".
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