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Luca Signorelli (c. 1450 - 1523)

• Was an Italian Renaissance painter.
• Lazzaro Vasari, the great-grandfather of art historian Giorgio Vasari, was Luca's maternal uncle.
• According to Giorgio Vasari, Lazzaro had Luca apprenticed to Piero della Francesca.
• In 1472 the young artist was painting at Arezzo, and in 1474 at Città di Castello.
• Signorelli worked in Rome from 1478 to 1484.
• In 1484 he returned to his native Cortona, which remained his home until his death.
• His frescoes of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Luca Signorelli, Madonna and Child, ca. 1505-07.
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