Nicolas Dipre (1495-1532)

• Sometimes also Nicolas d'Amiens, Nicolas d'Ypres.
• Was a French early Renaissance painter.
• Nicolas Dipre was born in Paris.
• The first written record of his existence dates from 1495 when he lived in Avignon.
• In May 1508, he married Honorée Bigle.
• Apart from commissions to design numerous altarpieces, Dipre was also hired to design other forms of decorations, like processional banners and heraldry.
• An altarpiece created for the Carpentras Cathedral, for which Dipre was paid 115 florins, has survived in fragments and with it as a basis, other works have been identified as having the same originator.
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