Mariano Riccio (born 1510) was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD ...

period. He was born at Messina, and painted altarpieces. He was a pupil of Franco, and afterwards of

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 ...

, whose style he successfully imitated. His son, Antonello Riccio, was also a painter.

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* 1510 births 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Renaissance painters Painters from Messina Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub