Luca Signorelli

Italian Renaissance painter (c.1450-1523)

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Lived 1450–1523, aged 73

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1450–1523
Aged 73

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Updated 2026-05-29

Renaissance painter whose muscular, anatomically precise frescos—especially his sprawling Last Judgment in Orvieto Cathedral—made him the guy to call for depicting human bodies in impossible positions.

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Luca Signorelli was an Italian Renaissance painter from Cortona, in Tuscany, who was noted in particular for his ability as a draftsman and his use of foreshortening. His massive frescos of the Last Judgment (1499–1503) in Orvieto Cathedral are considered his masterpiece.

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