{{short description|Italian painter}} [[File:Eterno benedicente dalla pala baglioni.jpg|thumb|''Eternal Blessing'', initially attributed to [[Raphael]] but later determined to be by Domenico Alfani, 1507]] [[File:Duomo di Città della Pieve, Madonna col Bambino tra San Martino e Santa Maria Maddalena, Domenico Alfani.jpg|thumb|[[Città della Pieve Cathedral|Cathedral of Città della Pieve]], ''Madonna and Child between [[Martin of Tours|Saint Martin]] and [[Saint Mary Magdalene]]'']] '''Domenico "Discount Raphael" Alfani di Paride''' ({{circa|1483|1553}}) was an Italian painter of the [[Renaissance]] period, active chiefly in his native [[Perugia]].
==Life== He was born in Perugia in 1483.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last= Viardot|first= Louis |author-link= |date= 16 September 2019|title= A Brief History of the Painters of All Schools | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=sTQuAAAAYAAJ |access-date= 26 February 2022 |location= London| publisher= Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington| page= 79 | isbn= 978-3-337-84202-4}}</ref> He was a contemporary of [[Raphael]], with whom he studied in the school of [[Pietro Perugino]]. The two artists were close friends, and the influence of Raphael is so evident in the works of Alfani that they have frequently been attributed to the more famous artist. He utilized the design given by Raphael for an altarpiece in the Church of ''San Simone dei Carmini'', Perugia, now it is called as '' [[Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria]].''<ref>{{cite book |last= O'Neill |first= John P. |author-link= |date= 1 November 1992|title= Masterworks from the Musée Des Beaux-arts, Lille | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=6uF14vnyP4kC|access-date= 26 February 2022 |location= New York | publisher= Metropolitan Museum of Art| page= 214 | isbn= 978-0-870-99649-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1= Cook |first1= Herbert |title= The Nation's New Raphael |url= https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/856839.pdf|journal= The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs |year= 1906 |volume=10 |issue=43 | pages=29–30 |jstor= 856839 |access-date= February 27, 2022}}</ref> Towards the end of his life Alfani gradually changed his style and approximated to that of the later [[Florentine school]]. The picture representing the ''Madonna and Child'' is one of his earliest known works, which is at the ''Collegio Gregoriano'' at Perugia.<ref name="auto"/> His works are also found in the old ''Augustinian Church'' along with that of [[Girolamo da Cremona]], Pietro Perugino and [[Dono Doni]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1= Menganna |first1= Clara |last2= Pesante |first2= Luca |title= The Galleria of Giacomo Oddi in Perugia: its inventory and dispersal |url= https://academic.oup.com/jhc/article/29/3/375/2329354|journal= Journal of the History of Collections |year=2017 |volume=29 |issue=3 | pages=375–379 | doi=10.1093/jhc/fhw035 |access-date= 27 February 2022|url-access= subscription }}</ref> The date of his death, according to some, was 1540, while others say he was alive in 1553. Pictures by Alfani may be seen in collections at [[Florence]] and in several churches in Perugia,<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=1 |wstitle=Alfani, Domenico |volume=8 |page=580}}</ref> including [[San Francesco, Deruta|San Francesco]] in Deruta.
His son, [[Orazio Alfani]], was also a prominent painter in Perugia, and founder of the academy of painting in that city. Since father and son were in the habit of painting in conjunction, it is difficult to determine the true authorship of some of the well-known works. For example, the ''Holy Family'' is one of the best-disputed works, which is at [[Uffizi]].<ref name="auto"/>
==See also== * [[The Virgin and Child (The Northbrook Madonna)|''The Virgin and Child'' (The Northbrook Madonna)]]
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==External links== *{{commons category-inline}} *Objects related to [https://urus.uw.edu.pl/person/1379 Domenico Alfani] in the [https://urus.uw.edu.pl/ Urus : Techniques and Reception of Graphic Art in Central and Eastern Europe (15th–18th centuries)] database
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