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Lello da Orvieto was an Italian painter and mosaicist, active in Lello da Orvieto
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Lello da Orvieto was an Italian painter and mosaicist, active in Naples
Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...
and Lazio
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between 1315 and 1340.in ''
Dizionario biografico degli italiani
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'', Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
He was born in Orvieto
Orvieto () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Terni, southwestern Umbria, Italy, situated on the flat summit of a large butte of volcanic tuff. The city rises dramatically above the almost-vertical faces of tuff cliffs that are compl ...
and produced the 1322 or 1313 mosaic ''Enthroned Madonna with Saints Januarius and Restituta'' in Naples Cathedral
The Naples Cathedral (; ), or the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (), is a Roman Catholic cathedral, the main church of Naples, southern Italy, and the seat of the Archbishop of Naples. It is widely known as the Cathedral of Saint Januarius ...
- he signed it ''Lellus de Urb(evetere)''. Two frescoes are also attributed to him - the c.1315 ''Tree of Life
The tree of life is a fundamental archetype in many of the world's mythology, mythological, religion, religious, and philosophy, philosophical traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree.Giovino, Mariana (2007). ''The ...
'' in the cappella degli Illustrissimi in Naples Cathedral
The Naples Cathedral (; ), or the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (), is a Roman Catholic cathedral, the main church of Naples, southern Italy, and the seat of the Archbishop of Naples. It is widely known as the Cathedral of Saint Januarius ...
and the c.1320-1340 ''Redeemer and Saints'' in the Chapter House of the Poor Clares at Santa Chiara.
References
Bibliography (in Italian)
*Ernst Gombrich
Sir Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (; ; 30 March 1909 – 3 November 2001) was an Austrian-born art historian who, after settling in England in 1936, became a naturalised British citizen in 1947 and spent most of his working life in the United Ki ...
, ''Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori'', Einaudi Editore, 1997.
* Vinni Lucherini, ''1313-1320 : il cosiddetto Lello da Orvieto, mosaicista e pittore, a Napoli, tra committenza episcopale e committenza canonicale'', in ''El Trecento en obres, Art de Catalunya i art d'Europa al segle XIV'', dir. R. Alcoy, Barcelone, Universitat de Barcelona, 2009, p. 185-216.
* Pierluigi Leone De Castris, ''Pietro Cavallini: Napoli prima di Giotto'', Napoli 2013.
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14th-century Italian painters
Italian mosaic artists
People from Orvieto