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Giuseppe Cesari's mother, aware of her son's precocious ability in drawing, took him to Rome when he was only about thirteen years old. Here he entered the workshop of Niccolò Circignani (1517/24-befo [+]
Veronese was trained in his native Verona by a local painter, Antonio Badile (1518-1560), and then by Giovanni Caroto (1488-1563/66). The influence of both these masters appears in his earliest indepe [+]
In his biography of Tintoretto Carlo Ridolfi recounts the painter’s fleeting stay at Titian’s studio. But despite the unquestionable authority of this narrative, Tintoretto’s early works bear little r [+]
The son of Jacopo (Comin or Robusti) Tintoretto, Domenico trained alongside his father and assisted him in the workshop. He joined the painters' guild at the age of 17 and is documented as a member of [+]
No other 17th-century European painter combined artistic talent, social and economic success and a high cultural level like Rubens. Though primarily a painter, he also made numerous designs for prints [+]
Little is known of this important artist's life. He must have been active primarily in Toledo, where some of his contracts for work around that city are known, and where contemporaneous sources speak [+]
Poussin is the most important 17th-century French painter and the absolute master of classicism. He trained in the region where he was born with an artist of the final stage of Mannerism and later in [+]
Jacopo Negretti, known as Palma "il Giovane" to distinguish him from his great uncle Palma "il Vecchio," spent his formative years at the court of Urbino and in Rome, where he was influenced by Taddeo [+]
Alessandro Maganza, was the best-known member of a family of painters from Vicenza, in whose workshop he trained before moving to that of Giovanni Antonio Fasolo (1530-1572). Thereafter he was in Veni [+]
There is very little mention of this Spanish painter whom Palomino considered a native of Madrid and disciple of Eugenio Cajés. His painting was very dependent on his teacher's approach, with a loose [+]
Castello was taught by Andrea Semino (c. 1526-1594) and subsequently by Luca Cambiaso (1527-1585); when the latter artist moved to Madrid in 1583, Castello emerged as one of Genoa’s leading painters. [+]
Annibale was probably trained by his elder cousin, Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), as well as by Bartolomeo Passarotti (1529-1592). In 1582, he and other family members established an academy for the s [+]
A student of the Florentine painters Alessandro Allori (1535-1607) and Santi di Tito (1536-1602), and of the architect Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608). During the early 1580s Cigoli painted two lunet [+]
Boscoli was a prolific draftsman. A student in the school of Santi di Tito (1536-1602), much of his knowledge was, however, self-taught. Time spent in Rome -probably early in the 1580s- enabled him to [+]
He was taught by Giovanni Battista Naldini (c. 1537-1591) the pupil and "artistic heir" of Pontormo (1494-1557). In his turn, Balducci became the spiritual heir to Naldini. Balducci followed his maste [+]