Ludovico Buti (c. 1560 - after 1611) was an Italian painter, active mostly in

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. Belonging to the late-

Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, ...

period, he worked along with more famous figures as

Alessandro Allori Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori (Florence, 31 May 153522 September 1607) was an Italian painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school. Biography In 1540, after the death of his father, Allori was brought up and train ...

Bernardino Poccetti Bernardino Poccetti (26 August 1548 – 10 October 1612), also known as Barbatelli, was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker of etchings. Biography Born in Florence, he was initially trained as a decorator of facades and ceilings, enrol ...

Santi di Tito Santi di Tito (5 December 1536 – 25 July 1603) was one of the most influential and leading Italian painters of the proto-Baroque style – what is sometimes referred to as "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. Biography He was born in Flor ...

on large projects, including the decoration of certain ceilings of the

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and the Grand Cloister of

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. In 1589, the duke Ferdinando I commissioned the decoration of the ''Map Room'' and the ''Stanzino delle Matematiche'', following a design by Stefano Buonsignori. IMSS Florence
/ref> There is a fresco by Buti on the ''Annunciation'' at the Basilica of Our Lady of Humility in

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, as well as the cathedral at

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