Paolo Farinati (also known as ''Farinato'' or ''Farinato degli Uberti''; c. 1524 – c. 1606) was an Italian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

of the

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, active in mainly in his native

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, but also in

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and

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. He may have ancestors among Florentine stock to which belonged the

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leader

Farinata degli Uberti Manente degli Uberti (1212 – 11 November 1264), known as Farinata degli Uberti, was an Italian aristocrat and military leader of the Ghibelline faction in Florence. He was considered to be a heretic by some of his contemporaries, including Dant ...

, celebrated in

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's ''

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''. He was a contemporary of the prominent artist of Verona,

Paolo Veronese Paolo Caliari (152819 April 1588), known as Paolo Veronese ( , also , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter based in Venice, known for extremely large history paintings of religion and mythology, such as ''The Wedding at Cana'' (1563) and ''The ...

. He was succeeded by other members of the

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family, of whom most or all were outlived by Farinato. He was instructed, according to

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, by his father and by the Veronese

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, and probably by

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and

Domenico del Riccio Domenico Riccio (also known as commonly known as Domenico Brusasorci; 1516–1567) was an Italian painter in a Mannerist style from Verona, best known for frescos. He first apprenticed with his father. Later, he has been reported to have trai ...

(Brusasorci). Proceeding to Mantua, he formed his initial style partly on the influence of

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. His first major work was an altarpiece for the

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. The chapel of the Sacrament in that church was frescoed concurrently by Farinati, Paolo Veronese,

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, and

Battista del Moro Battista del Moro (1512 – after 1568) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period active in his native Verona, as well as in Mantua and Venice. This artists is referred to by various names including Battista D’Agnolo Veronese by Filipp ...

. Vasari praised his thronged compositions and merit of draughtsmanship. His works are to be found not only in Venice and principally in Verona, but also in

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and other towns belonging or adjacent to the Venetian territory. In 1584, he painted one of the trio of painters (Farinati,

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, and

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) depicting events from the life of Moses for the palace of Pellegrino Ridolfi in the Veronese contrada of San Pietro Incarnario. The canvas depicting ''Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro'' was Farinati's contribution, now in the Museo degli Affreschi G.B. Cavalcaselle in Verona.Website of the Museo degli Affreschi
entry on the cycle of frescoes of the Palazzo Ridolfi. He was a prosperous and light-hearted man, and continually progressed in his art, passing from a comparatively dry manner into a larger and bolder one, with much attraction of drapery and of landscape. Late in life, his style resembled that of Paolo Veronese. The ''Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes'', painted in the church of

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, is accounted his masterpiece, executed at the advanced age of seventy-nine, and crowded with figures. A ''Last Supper'' was painted by him in

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; also in this church, he painted a ''Michael expelling Lucifer'' and ''Massacre of the Innocents''. In

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is a ''St Sixtus''; in

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a ''Presentation in the Temple''; and in the communal gallery of Verona one of his masterpieces, the ''Marriage of St Catherine''. Farinati executed some sculptures, and various etchings of sacred and mythologic subjects. He is said to have died at the same hour as his wife. His son

Orazio Orazio is a male given name of Italian origin, derived from the Latin name ( ''nomen'') Horatius, from the Roman gens (clan) Horatia. People so named include: *Orazio Alfani (c. 1510–1583), Italian painter *Orazio Antinori (1811–1882), Itali ...

was also a painter of merit. His daughter Chiara also was a painter. Farinati is notable for having kept a detailed journal of his activities from 1573 until his death. His many drawings on tinted paper are particularly notable. P Farinati Presentación Castelvecchio.jpg, ''Presentation at temple'' P Farinati Bautismo de Cristo.jpg, ''Baptism of Christ'' (detail) Paolo Farinati Rijksmuseum.jpg, ''Adoration of the Magi'', 1585–1590 Chiesa di San Bernardino Adorazione dei Pastori Paolo Farinati 1584 Salò.jpg, ''Adoration of the shepherds'' signed 1584

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External links

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Paolo Farinato The ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'' (also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedia'') i ...

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