Felice Damiani

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Felice Damiani (active 1584-1606) was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerism period. He was also called Felice da Gubbio. He painted a Baptism of Sant'Agostino in the church of Sant'Agostino and an Adoration of the Magi (1603) for the church of San Domenico in Gubbio. He painted a Madonna de'Lumi for a church in San Severino Marche. He painted a Martyrdom of St. Paul for a church in Recanati. He painted a strikingly genre-style Mane Nobiscum Domine ("Stay with us, Lord") now in the Palazzo Comunale in Cantiano^[1]. He painted a Santo Alberto with Virgin, saints and donors for the Santuario Maria SS. delle Vergini in Macerata^[2]. He painted frescoes for the Castello Brancaleoni di Piobbico^[3]. He also painted altarpieces for the Sanctuary at Loreto. The painter Pier Angelo Basili was his pupil^[4].

[edit] References

• Farquhar, Maria (1855). in Ralph Nicholson Wornum: 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, page 53. 

1. ^ Cantiano da vedere
2. ^ image below
3. ^ Castello di Piobbico
4. ^ *Hobbes, James R. (1849). Picture collector's manual adapted to the professional man, and the amateur. T&W Boone, 29 Bond Street; Digitized by Googlebooks, page 72.