Introduction
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Polidoro da Caravaggio
Polidoro
was born in about 1499 in the town of Caravaggio, near Milan, in northern
Italy. He moved to Rome around 1515 and was probably engaged in Raphael's
workshop from 1517. After Raphael's death in 1520, Polidoro occasionally
collaborated with his former fellow assistants, but he soon began to specialize
in painting friezes on the façades of Roman palaces. Although very little
remains of these schemes, in their day they were among the most copied
and widely known paintings in Italy.
After
the Sack of Rome in 1527, Polidoro left for Naples, then moved on to
Sicily a year later. The rest of his career is poorly documented. Isolated
from the artistic developments in central and northern Italy, his drawing
and painting style evolved into a highly individual, expressive idiom,
and his subsequent paintings were almost all devotional in nature. Polidoro
was apparently murdered by an assistant in 1543.
Introduction
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