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Description: | Signorelli's life focussed on his native Cortona. His oeuvre consists of frescoes, altarpieces and smaller easel paintings. His greatest works were the frescoes at Orvieto Cathedral. The easel paintings are mostly domestic pictures of the Virgin and Child, banners for confraternities and a few portraits and scenes derived from classical mythology. They are often held to be of the period 1487-1500, but none are dated. The only document referring to a small-scale Virgin and Child is from 1505. Fra Luca Pacioli stated in his Summa arithmetica, (Venice, 1494) that Signorelli was a pupil of Piero della Francesco, which was certainly possible given his proximity to Città di Castello and Arezzo which contain early known works by Signorelli. The artist's relevance for successive generations of artists and writers is remarkable beginning with the early high standing afforded him by Vasari (who was a relative); he was then rediscovered with renewed enthusiasm by the Nazarene painter Peter Cornelius who wrote from Orvieto to his colleague Overbeck that Signorelli equalled Raphael, thus earning him the status of a Pre-Raphaelite par excellence. | Subjects: | religion (Virgin and Child) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Signorelli, Luca (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1450-1523) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Signorelli, Luca (Italian painter and draftsman, ca. 1450-1523) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8492... | Go to resource |
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