Eliodoro Forbicini (born 1533), who flourished from 1550 to 1570, was a native of
Verona
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in nor ...
, who excelled in
grotesque
Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus ...
s. He decorated two rooms in the
Palazzo Canova, which have been much admired.
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1533 births
Year of death unknown
Painters from Verona
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