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At the age of ten, Alonso Sánchez Coello moved with his family to Portugal, where he began his first art studies. John III, king of Portugal, was aware of his talent and in 1550 he paid the young arti [+]
Pietro Buonaccorsi, called Perino del Vaga was, from age eleven, a pupil of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio (1483-1561); and later he was taken as a youth to Rome by an elusive painter, "il Vaga," whence the form [+]
The sources on Lilio's early life are sparse and sometimes contradictory. As a youth he was already active in Rome, since he is recorded in 1583 as beginning work on the four Evangelists beneath the c [+]
Born in Venice, Franco moved to Rome around the age of twenty, where he began incessantly to copy the works of Michelangelo (1475-1564). The influence of the older artist, which was to extend througho [+]
His earliest documented painting, St. Martin and the Beggar (1552), was commissioned by Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga for Mantua cathedral, which had recently been reconstructed by Giulio Romano (c. 1499-15 [+]
Brusasorci probably began training in the workshop of his father, Agostino Brusasorci (1482-1555), before subsequently studying under Gian Francesco Caroto (c. 1480-c. 1555). Some time after 1543 he f [+]