Pietro Alemanno

1430 – 1498

Italian painter of Austrian origin, a pupil and possibly employee of Carlo Crivelli. He was mainly active in the Marches, including Ascoli Piceno, Monterubbiano, and Castel Folignano. His painting shows distinct Paduan influences. Born in Göttweich, Austria, Alamanno moved to the Marches where he is recorded as early as 1466. Though previous scholarship placed the artist firmly in the shadow of Carlo Crivelli, considering him a simple follower, recent research have shown him to be a far more independent figure. These studies revealed the Austrian's presence in his adopted home of Ascoli Piceno to predate that of Crivelli and found him to have completed significant and complex commissions soon after his arrival in the Marches, suggesting he was already considered an important and accomplished artist. Far from his repetitive adhesion to Crivellian models suggested by 19th century scholars, Alamanno's oeuvre, much of which was only recently restored to him, shows a painter aware of the shifting pictorial influences in the region. Alamanno is now considered a leading personality in the Northern inspired figure painting popularized in the Marches in the last quarter of the 15th century.

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