Alessandro Ardente (died 1595) was an Italian painter during the late-
Renaissance
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period. He was born in
Faenza
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Faenza is home to a historical manufacture of majolica-ware glazed eart ...
and active in
Turin
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,
Lombardy
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, and
Lucca where he was well known as a
portrait
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style. He painted a ''Conversion of St. Paul'' for the church of Monte della Pieta in Turin. He painted a ''Baptism of Christ'' for the church of ''San Giovanni'' and a ''St. Anthony Abbot'' (1565) for the church of
San Paolino in Lucca .
References
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1595 deaths
People from Faenza
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Piedmont
Italian Mannerist painters
Year of birth unknown
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