Marco Cardisco, also known as Marco Calabrese, (Born in

Tiriolo Tiriolo is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of southern Italy. It was the birthplace of Renaissance painter Marco Cardisco. "The houses in the historic center, perched like in a nativity scene, make up t ...

c.1486 – c.1542) was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas ...

period, active mainly in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

during 1508–1542.

Biography

He was a pupil of the painter and decorator

Polidoro da Caravaggio Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio ( – 1543) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now-vanished pa ...

, and influenced by

Andrea da Salerno Andrea Sabbatini (1487–1530) (var. Andrea Sabatini or Andrea da Salerno) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Salerno, and initially trained under Raimondo Epifanio in Naples, but move to Rome and became a close discipl ...

He painted at Sant' Agostino at

Aversa Aversa () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the ''Agro Aversano'', producing wine and cheese (famous for the typical bu ...

. Among his pupils were the painter

Pietro Negroni Pietro Negroni, also called Il Giovane Zingaro (''the young gypsy'') and Lo zingarello di Cosenza (''the little gypsy from Cosenza'')Marisa Reale, Pietro Negroni - Lo zingarello di Cosenza, , FPE Franco Pangallo Editore, 2011 ( – 1565), was a ...

and

Giovanni Filippo Crescione Giovanni Filippo Crescione or Cressione(Naples, 16th century) was an Italian painter, mainly active as a landscape painter. Biography He was a pupil of Marco Cardisco (1486–1542) and a collaborator of Lionardo Castellani.Calabria , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 ...

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1480s births 1540s deaths People from the Province of Catanzaro 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub