Dono Doni

Dono Doni (also Adone Doni, * after 1500 in Assisi, † 1575 ) was a famous Italian painter of the Renaissance. He came from a family of artists and was mainly in Umbria ( Foligno, Gubbio, Spoleto, Perugia, Spello and Assisi ) operates.

According to Ludovico di Pietralunga he received his training from Giovanni di Pietro, called Lo Spagna. In 1530 he received a sum of money documented by receipt for frescoes in S. Giacomo in Spoleto, the same year he is also in Assisi in the Palazzo Pubblico active. Then he receives numerous orders.

In 1550 he is in Rome, and painted in the Church of SS Giovanni e Paolo al Celio a Madonna with Saints. In the same year he painted The Last Supper in the refectory of the monastery of San Francesco in Assisi. Another work, the Immaculate Conception, he painted for the church of S. Francesco in Perugia (now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale ). From 1561-1562 he painted some stained glass windows in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi, where he painted frescoes also ( in the chapel of St. Stephen ). Pictures of him can be found also in the Santa Maria degli Angeli Basilica ( Assisi ) ( crucifixion ), in the Cathedral of San Rufino (Jesus Christ in Glory with Saints and Mourning of Christ), in the monastery of S. Anna in Foligno ( Nativity), in Cathedral of Gubbio ( way to Golgotha ​​), in the Rocca Paolina in Perugia ( history of St. Paul of Tarsus ), in the cathedral of Terni ( way to Golgotha ​​), and several other places in Spello and Spoleto.