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He was first taught in his native Arezzo by the little-known French glass painter and fresco painter, Guillaume de Marcillat (1475-1529 or 1537). By 1524, he had moved to Florence, where he worked for Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530), in whose studio he became acquainted with Francesco Salviati (1510-1563). During his early training in Florence, he met Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Baccio Bandinelli (1
He was apprenticed in 1488 in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448/9-1494) in Florence. The following year he joined the academy of young sculptors in the Medici garden where he probably received instruction from Bertoldo di Giovanni (c. 1430/40-1491). Nevertheless, Michelangelo remained essentially self-taught, enjoying the patronage of Lorenzo the Magnificent until the latter’s
The personality of Italian sculptor Leone Leoni is as thrilling as that of his contemporaries, Titian, Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini. In 1533, he was a twenty-four-year-old goldsmith living with his wife, Diamante, in Venice as a protégé of poet Pietro Aretino. That period was marked for him by the birth of his son, Pompeo, whom he trained in his studio and introduced to northern Italian circ
He was one of the leading exponents of the classicizing tendency in Bolognese painting that evolved in the wake of Raphael's influence in the city during the first half of the sixteenth century. Bagnacavallo was in Bologna by the age of nineteen, where he seems to have entered the workshop of Francesco Francia (c. 1450-1517); the older artist's style is evident in his early Holy Family (Palazzo Du