Niccolò Appiani

Niccolò Appiani (or Appiano), a Milanese painter, who flourished about the year 1510. It is said that he was a scholar of Leonardo da Vinci, and Cesariani compares him with the greatest masters of the age. Two works in the Brera, the 'Baptism of Christ,' and the 'Adoration of the Magi,' are ascribed to Appiani.

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This article incorporates text from the article "APPIANI, Niccolò" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.

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