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Pinturicchio

British  
/ pintoˈrikkjo, pintuˈrikkjo /

noun

  1. real name Bernardino di Betto. ?1454–1513, Italian painter of the Umbrian school

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He said that his father painted copies of works by Bruegel, Pinturicchio and others and hung them around the house.

From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2020

One worker who was weaving a cream-colored damask from a design named for the Renaissance painter Pinturicchio could be expected to complete only 80 to 100 centimeters of the fabric per day.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2014

This is the Italy of Michelangelo and Pinturicchio: in Ferrara Bembo is writing sonnets and in Milan Leonardo is modelling his doomed sculpture of Francesco Sforza.

From The Guardian • May 2, 2013

He also had good taste in art, commissioning frescoes by Pinturicchio that are still in the Vatican, though Alexander drew the line at hiring Michelangelo to paint Juan’s portrait.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2011

Pinturicchio painted them running across a flowery meadow to get water from a fountain.

From Child-life in Art by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

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