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LO SPAGNA (d. –c. 1529)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 527 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPAGNA (d. –c. 1529)  , the usual designation (due to his See also:Spanish origin) of the See also:Italian painter Giovanni di Pietro, one of the See also:chief followers of See also:Perugino . The famous " Sposalizio "—See also:marriage of See also:Joseph and See also:Mary—in the See also:Caen museum, formerly attributed to Perugino (q.v.), is now credited to Lo See also:Spagna . Nothing whatever is known of his See also:early See also:life, or how he became a member of the Perugian school . There is. a marked See also:absence of individuality about his See also:style, which seems like an See also:imitation of the earliest manner of See also:Raphael and that of See also:Pinturicchio in a weaker and less virile See also:form . The chief of his numerous See also:panel paintings are the " Nativity," in the Vatican, and the " See also:Adoration of the Magi," at See also:Berlin . In 1510 Lo Spagna executed many frescoes at See also:Todi, and in 1512 several other mural paintings in and near Trevi . His most important See also:works were frescoes at See also:Assisi and See also:Spoleto, of which some exist in See also:good preservation . He received the freedom of the See also:city of Spoleto in 1516, as a See also:reward for his See also:work there . Lo Spagna's frescoes reach a much higher See also:standard of merit than his panel pictures . The museum of the Capitol in See also:Rome now possesses a very beautiful See also:series of life-sized See also:fresco figures by him, representing See also:Apollo and the Nine See also:Muses . Lo Spagna was alive in 1528, but he appears to have died before 1530, as in that See also:year a See also:pupil of his named Doni completed a fresco in S . Jacopo, near Spoleto, which Lo Spagna had begun .

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