Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644), also known as Claudio Veronese, was an Italian painter of the

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period.

Biography

Ridolfi was born in

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to a noble family. He was active mainly in

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and

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where he was a pupil of the painters Dario Pozzo and

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 ...

Simone Cantarini Simone Cantarini or Simone da Pesaro, called ''il Pesarese'' (Baptized on 21 August 1612 – 15 October 1648) was an Italian painter and etcher. He is mainly known for his history paintings and portraits executed in an original style, which ...

, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi.''Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and ...''
' Volume 3, by James Dennistoun, (1851) page 361.'' Despite being unable to find employment as a painter, he lived a comfortable life and enjoyed painting. While in Urbino he married a noblewoman and established himself in

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. He died in 1644 aged 84 years old.

Works

*''Birth of John the Baptist'' for the church of Santa Lucia in

*''Presentation of the virgin in the temple'' for a church in Santo Spirito *''Deposition'' for a church in

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*''Santa Giustina, St Benedict presenting rules to the principal Benedictines'' for a church in

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*''San Fillippo and Santa Maria Assunta'', in a canvas, in the church of

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, in

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References

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