Avanzino Nucci (c. 1552–1629) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period.

Biography

He was born in

Gubbio Gubbio () is an Italian town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Italian province of Perugia (Umbria). It is located on the lowest slope of Mt. Ingino, a small mountain of the Apennine Mountains, Apennines. History Prehistory The ol ...

and died in

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. He trained with Niccolò Circignani (il Pomarancio).

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was one of his pupils. His paintings can be found in the Roman churches of San Rocco all'Augusteo, San Silvestro al Quirinale, and San Paolo fuora le Mura. Some more paintings dated 1596 are in the portico of the former Carthusian Monastery and now museum of San Martino in Naples. They depict the ''Foundation of the Carthusian order by St

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'', the ''Approval of the order by the Pope Urban II'' and the ''Meeting of the Saint with the Norman king

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''. He is said to have painted in the church of the Annunziata (1627) and in the church of San Benedetto (1620) in

Gualdo Tadino Gualdo Tadino (Latin: ''Tadinum'') is an ancient town of Italy, in the province of Perugia in northeastern Umbria, on the lower flanks of Monte Penna, a mountain of the Apennines. It is NE of Perugia. History Gualdo has a long history and was o ...

.Indice-guida dei monumenti pagani e cristiani riguardanti l'istoria e l'arte nella provincia dell'Umbria
By Mariano Guardabassi, (1872) page 362.

References

* 1550s births 1629 deaths People from Gubbio 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub