Luca Signorelli
Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523)
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ItalyA draftsman who could twist the human body through space like few others in the Renaissance — his Last Judgment frescoes in Orvieto Cathedral, painted at the turn of the sixteenth century, remain the thing people cross Italy to see.
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Born around 1441 in Cortona, Signorelli likely trained under Piero della Francesca in Florence, absorbing the geometry and clarity that would anchor his work. He moved through the major centers — Florence, Siena, Rome — and painted a section of the Sistine Chapel between 1478 and 1484, now lost. By his early forties he settled back in Cortona, where he kept a home base for the rest of his life while traveling for commissions across Tuscany and Umbria. Between 1499 and 1503 he completed the massive Last Judgment cycle in Orvieto Cathedral, a cascade of foreshortened bodies and anatomical precis…
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