Niccolò Appiani
Niccolò Appiani, 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 Pinacoteca [di Brera|Brera], the 'Baptism of Christ,' and the 'Adoration of the Magi,' are ascribed to Appiani.