Marcino d'Alba (c. 1460–1465 – c. 1510–1520)

• Was an Itaian Painter.
• Marcino was born in Alba.
• His birth name was Gian Giacomo de' Alladio.
• It is now known that he was in fact called Gian Giacomo de 'Alladio and was nicknamed 'Macrino' probably because of his slim and gaunt build.

• Macrino was an eminently eclectic painter and an extraordinary assimilator of aesthetic trends that had developed in Rome and Tuscany.

• He painted the Resurrection for the chapel of Sant’Ugone at the Certosa di Pavia.

• He also painted in the church of San Francesco at Alba and works in the Vigevano Cathedral. 

• He achieved an artistic high-point in the altarpiece of the Virgin Enthroned between SS John the Baptist and James, a Bishop Saint and St Jerome (1503, Casale Monferrato, Santuario Crea).

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