Lello da Orvieto
Appearance
Lello da Orvieto was an Italian painter and mosaicist, active in Naples and Lazio between 1315 and 1340.[1]
He was born in Orvieto and produced the 1322 or 1313 mosaic Enthroned Madonna with Saints Januarius and Restituta in Naples Cathedral - he signed it Lellus de Urb(evetere). Two frescoes are also attributed to him - the c.1315 Tree of Life in the cappella degli Illustrissimi in Naples Cathedral and the c.1320-1340 Redeemer and Saints in the Chapter House of the Poor Clares at Santa Chiara.
References
[edit]- ^ Lello da Orvieto, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
Bibliography (in Italian)
[edit]- Ernst Gombrich, 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.