Avanzino Nucci

Avanzino Nucci, Peter's confrontation with Simon Magus, Oil on canvas, 1620

Avanzino Nucci (c. 1552–1629) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period.

He was born in Gubbio^[1] and died in Rome. He trained with Niccolò Circignani (il Pomarancio). Bernardino Gagliardi was one of his pupils. His paintings can be found in the Roman churches of San Rocco all'Augusteo, San Silvestro al Quirinale, and San Paolo fuora le Mura. Some more paintings dated 1596 are in the parlour of the ex Charthusian Monastery and now museum of S. Martino in Naples. They represent the foundation of the Carthusian order by S. Brunon of Cologne (Germany),the approval of the order by the Pope Urban II and the meeting of the Saint with the Norman king of southern Italy Roger.

References

1. Avanzino Nucci in Dizionario Biografico – Treccani

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum, ed. Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006. p. 12.