Orazio Alfani (c. 1510 – 1583) was an Italian

painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

period, active in both

Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...

and

Perugia Perugia ( , ; ; ) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber. The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area. It has 162,467 ...

. He is sometimes referred to as Orazio di Domenico or di Paris Alfani. Born near Perugia, he first trained with his father, the painter

Domenico Alfani Domenico Alfani di Paride () was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active chiefly in his native Perugia. Life He was born in Perugia in 1483. He was a contemporary of Raphael, with whom he studied in the school of Pietro Perugino. Th ...

. His work was also influenced by the

Mannerist Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it ...

painters

Rosso Fiorentino Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (8 March 1495 – 14 November 1540), known as Rosso Fiorentino (meaning "Florentine Redhead" in Italian) or Il Rosso ("The Redhead"), was an Italian Mannerist painter who worked in oil and fresco Fresco ( or ...

and

Raffaellino del Colle Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian Mannerist painter active mostly in Umbria. He was born in the frazione of Colle in Borgo Sansepolcro, province of Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. Biography He is also called ''Raffaellino della Colle' ...

. In 1539, he went to work at the

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, returning to Perugia in 1544.N.N.:
Alfani, Orazio
', La Mia Umbria. In Italian. URL last accessed 2007-08-08. In 1573, he founded the ''Accademia del Disegno'' (Academy of Drawing) in Perugia, together with the

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Raffaello Sozi. This institution still exists today as the ''Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vannucci'' (Academy of Fine Arts "

Pietro Vannucci Pietro Perugino ( ; ; born Pietro Vannucci or Pietro Vanucci; – 1523), an Italian Renaissance painter of the Umbrian school, developed some of the qualities that found classic expression in the High Renaissance. Raphael became his most famous ...

").N.N.:
Pietro Vannucci Fine Arts Academy
'', Commune of Perugia. URL last accessed 2007-08-08. Most of his paintings and

fresco Fresco ( or frescoes) is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting become ...

es are in museums and churches in Perugia and Palermo. Among his best known paintings is ''The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine'', which was painted in 1549.''Le mariage mystique de sainte Catherine'' is presently at the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, largest city of France. With an estimated population of 2,048,472 residents in January 2025 in an area of more than , Paris is the List of ci ...

; se
Index to the writings of Vivant Denon
director of the Louvre 1801 – 1815. URL last accessed 2007-08-08. Orazio Alfani died 1583 in

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. His son, of the same name, was also a painter.

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Accademia di Belle Arti
in Perugia. 1510s births 1583 deaths Painters from Perugia 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub