Monaldo Trofi -- also known as ''Monaldo Corso'' or ''Monaldo da Viterbo'' or ''il Truffetta'' -- (active 1505-circa 1539) was an

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painter of the

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style active in

Viterbo Viterbo (; Viterbese: ; lat-med, Viterbium) is a city and ''comune'' in the Lazio region of central Italy, the capital of the province of Viterbo. It conquered and absorbed the neighboring town of Ferento (see Ferentium) in its early history ...

, region of

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, Italy.

Biography

Trofi was said to have been born in Viterbo in the late 1480s, but it is unclear with whom he trained. The obvious cited master is

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(ca. 1450–1516), the main local artist of the prior generation. His style sometimes resembles

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. He is documented in 1504 in association with works at the Corneto Cathedral with the two painters above and Constantino di Jacopo di Zello. Most of his output, signed or attributed, are sacred paintings. He is said to have painted a ''Nativity'' for a church in Canino He also painted an ''Enthroned Madonna and Child between St John Evangelist, St Francis of Assisi, St Jerome and St John the Baptist'' for the church of San Francesco in

Canino Canino is a town and ''comune'' of Italy, in the province of Viterbo (northern Lazio) in the internal part of Maremma Laziale. It is west of Valentano and northwest of Viterbo. It is also near the ancient Etruscan town of Vulci, and the des ...

. The

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has two tablets depicting St Anthony Abbot and St Sebastian, attributed to Trofi, and dated circa 1505.The Walters Art Gallery
catalogue. He painted a ''Deposition'' located in the Museo Nazionale of

Tarquinia Tarquinia (), formerly Corneto, is an old city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Central Italy, known chiefly for its ancient Etruscan tombs in the widespread necropoleis, or cemeteries, for which it was awarded UNESCO World Heritage status ...

dated 1507.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trofi Mondolfo 1480s births 1530s deaths People from Viterbo Painters from Lazio 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters