Antonio Badile (c. 1518 – 1560) was an Italian painter from
Verona
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...
.
Biography
He was the grandson of the Veronese 15th-century painter
Giovanni Badile. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile (died 1544). He was the first master of
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...
, and later his father-in-law. Veronese later moved to train with
Giovanni Francesco Caroto. Badile also trained
Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Giovanni Battista Zelotti (; 1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories.
He appears to have been born in Verona, then part of the Venetian mainland, and trained wit ...
.
[Freedberg, p. 559] Badile is described as continuing the "retardataire" tradition of Caroto well past the 1540s. His masterpiece is the altarpiece for
Santi Nazaro e Celso of a ''Madonna and Saints'' (1540); another notable work is his ''Resurrection of Lazarus'' for the chapel of Santa Croce in the church of
San Bernardino
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. Other works are found in towns of the Veneto.
He was partially influenced by the
Brescia
Brescia (, locally ; lmo, link=no, label= Lombard, Brèsa ; lat, Brixia; vec, Bressa) is a city and ''comune'' in the region of Lombardy, Northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, a few kilometers from the lakes Garda and Iseo. ...
n painter
Alessandro Bonvicino (called il Moretto).
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1510s births
1560 deaths
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Verona
Italian Mannerist painters
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