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/ref> Mazza's best-known painting is '' The Rape of Ganymede'' in the
Damiano Mazza (active 1573–1590) was an Italian Renaissance
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artist. He lived in the Venetian city of Padua
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, 40 km west of Venice
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. It is known that he studied under Titian
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./ref> Mazza's best-known painting is '' The Rape of Ganymede'' in the
National Gallery
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, London, which originally adorned the ceiling of a lawyer's house in Padua. He also painted an icon of the Madonna for the Santuario della Beata Vergine della Porta in Guastalla.
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