Paolo Caylina the Younger was a 16th-century Italian painter active mainly in

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in a

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style.

Biography

He was the nephew of both

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and Paolo Caylina the Elder, and son of Bartolomeo Caylina. He is sometimes erroneously referred to a ''Paolo Foppa'' or ''Paolo Zoppo''. Paolo Caylina the Elder was a son of a painter name Pietro, working in alongside Foppa in 1458 at Pavia, and during 1459–1575 in Brescia. Some sources say Paolo Zoppo painted a bowl with the ''Sack of Brescia'' which took place in 1512, planned as a gift for Doge

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, but that the bowl was broken and that this caused him to die of grief at

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at Garda. He frescoed a scene of the ''Life of St John the Baptist'', including the ''Banquet of Herod'', in 1578 a chapel for the Church of San Giovanni Battista at Edolo.Itinera
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Gallery

File:Collegiata dei Santi Nazaro e Celso decapitazione Caylina il Giovane Brescia.jpg, Beheading, ''Collegiata dei Santi Nazaro e Celso'' File:Collegiata dei Santi Nazaro e Celso fustigazione Caylina il Giovane Brescia.jpg, Flogging, ''Collegiata dei Santi Nazaro e Celso'' File:Museo di Santa Giulia Coro delle Monache Brescia.jpg, ''Coro delle Monache'', detail of the midchapel with frescos in the ''Museo di Santa Giulia'' File:Museo di Santa Giulia Coro delle Monache Giuditta Palo da Caylina Brescia.jpg, Fresco of Judith and the head of Holophernes in the ''Museo di Santa Giulia'' File:Museo di Santa Giulia Coro delle Monache Deposizione Paolo da Caylina Brescia.jpg, Deposition in the ''Museo di Santa Giulia'' File:Museo di Santa Giulia Coro delle Monache Resurrezione noli me tangere Paolo da Caylina Brescia.jpg, Fresco of

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in the ''Museo di Santa Giulia''

References

Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Painters from Brescia Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub