Raffaellino del Colle, Immacolata Concezione, 1530-32

Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian Mannerist painter active mostly in

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. He was born in the frazione of Colle in

Borgo Sansepolcro Sansepolcro, formerly Borgo Santo Sepolcro, is a town and ''comune'' founded in the 11th century, located in the Italian Province of Arezzo in the eastern part of the region of Tuscany. Situated on the upper reaches of the Tiber river, the town i ...

, province of Arezzo,

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, Italy.

Biography

He is also called ''Raffaellino della Colle'' or ''Raffaello dal Colle''. Raffaellino was a pupil of

Raphael Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. List of works by Raphael, His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of ...

, whom he is held to have assisted in the decoration of the

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and of the stanze in the Vatican Palace. After Raphael's death, Raffaellino continued working in the Vatican, helping complete the ''Sala di Constantino'' though now under the direction of Giulio Romano. After the 1527 Sack of Rome, like most of Romano's studio and most of the foreign art community, Raffaellino and other artists dispersed through Italy, most returning to their home cities. Rafaellino went to

Città di Castello Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of ...

, near his birthplace, where he painted altar-pieces for the principal churches, which are now mostly to be found in that town's Municipal Art Gallery.Istruzione storico-pittorica per visitore le chiese e palazzi di Castello
Volume 2; by Giacomo Mancini; Tipografia Baduel, Perugia (1832); page 76-77. He also worked in Borgo San Sepolcro. He worked for the service Duke

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in Urbino from 1539 to 1543. He also worked with

Girolamo Genga Girolamo Genga (c. 1476 – 11 July 1551) was an Italian painter and architect of the late Renaissance, Mannerist style. Life and career Genga was born in a region near Urbino. According mainly to Giorgio Vasari's biography, by age thirtee ...

, decorating the ''Camera dei Semibusti'', ''Sala della Calunni'', and ''Cabinet of Hercules'' of the

Villa Imperiale of Pesaro The Villa Imperiale of Pesaro is a suburban palatial house outside of Pesaro, built and decorated by artists of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. It is now a private residence but the frescoed rooms and elaborate gardens are available for ...

for Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. In

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, he worked at the ''Rocca Paolina'' (1540). In 1536, Vasari commissioned from Raffaellino some ephemeral street decorations to celebrate the entry of Charles V into

Florence Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico an ...

Raffaellino del Colle, Madonna col Bambino e santi, 1540 ca

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Casa Cappellino

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1490 births 1566 deaths People from Sansepolcro 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Mannerist painters Catholic painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub