Benedetto Nucci (1515–1587) was an Italian painter of the late-

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period.

Biography

He was born in

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. He was a pupil of Pietro Paolo Baldinacci in

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, in the

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, today in

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. Benedetto married his master's daughter, Orsolina, in 1549. He did not train with

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, as reported, but was highly influenced by

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. He painted several works, mainly for religious institutions in northern Umbria. Among them, a ''Madonna and Child with Saints'' (1570) for the

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in Gubbio, and a

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depicting the Madonna and Child with

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and

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(''Trittico di Baccaresca'', ca. 1565, Gubbio, Museo Diocesano). The latter work was commissioned by Gabriele, Filippo and Antonio Gabrielli for the church in their castle at Baccaresca, near Gubbio. Among his pupils were his son (or brother)

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(trained also in

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with

Daniele da Volterra Daniele Ricciarelli (; 15094 April 1566), better known as Daniele da Volterra (, ), was a Mannerism, Mannerist List of Italian painters, Italian painter and sculpture, sculptor. He is best remembered for his association with Michelangelo. Sev ...

, and died in Gubbio in 1621); Mario Marioni; Giovanni Maria Baldassini (active 1540–1601); Bernardino Brozzi (1555-1617); and one of the more prominent painters of Gubbio,

Felice Damiani Felice Damiani or Felice da Gubbio (1530–1608) was an Italian painter of the Mannerism, Late Renaissance or Mannerism period. Biography He was a pupil of Benedetto Nucci in Gubbio. Because of his lively colouring, he was nicknamed the ''Paolo ...

.Memorie e guida storica di Gubbio
by Oderigi Lucarelli, Stab. Tipografia Literaria S. Lapi, (1888), Citta di Castello, page 446-447.

References

16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Umbrian painters Italian Renaissance painters Italian Mannerist painters 1515 births 1587 deaths {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub