Niccolò di Liberatore

Training under Bartolomeo di Tommaso is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Foligno. Works named in the authority record are Saint Anthony, Madonna with child, Crucifixion and San Severino Polyptych by L'Alunno. Work by Niccolò di Liberatore is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Pinacoteca comunale, Rijksmuseum and National Gallery.

He was born at Foligno, the son of an apothecary. He was a pupil of Bartolomeo di Tomaso; his master's assistant was Benozzo Gozzoli, the pupil of Fra Angelico. The simple Umbrian feeling in his work was somehow modified by this Florentine influence. His earliest known example (dated 1458) is in the Franciscan Church of Deruta, near Perugia. He painted banners for religious processions, as well as altarpieces and other pictures, died a rich man, and is supposed by Mariotti to have been the master of Perugino, Pinturicchio, and Andrea di Luigi. • Illustration — Statue in Foligno Vasari mistakenly attributed some of his works to Alunno di Foligno or l'Alunno, misreading an inscription on the base of his large polyptych in the church of San Nicolò, where the painter signed himself “Alumnus Fulginiae” or “Nicholaus Alumnus Fulginiae”, which translates correctly as “Nicolò citizen of Foligno”.