Francesco Melanzio
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Francesco Melanzio (1460–1526) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period in Montefalco, Umbria.
He was born in Montefalco, and said to have been, along with Bernardino di Mariotto, a pupil of Fiorenzo di Lorenzo. He painted extensive frescoes in the Monastery of San Francesco in Montefalco.[1]
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- ^ Rassegna d'arte antica e moderna, Volumes 6-7, Article: La Pittura all'Esposizione d'arte Antica di Perugia, by F. Mason Perkins (1907), page 304.
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- 1460 births
- 1526 deaths
- Umbrian painters
- 15th-century Italian painters
- Italian male painters
- 16th-century Italian painters
- Italian Renaissance painters