Rinaldo Mantovano, also called Domenico Rinaldo, was an Italian painter from

Mantua Mantua ( ; it, Mantova ; Lombard and la, Mantua) is a city and '' comune'' in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name. In 2016, Mantua was designated as the Italian Capital of Culture. In 2017, it was named as the Eur ...

who was active between 1527 and 1539. According to

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

he was the most talented assistant of

Giulio Romano Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-cent ...

during his stay in the service of the Gonzaga Marquis' of Mantua.

Biography

Rinaldo's birth and death dates are unknown. We know that he was born in Mantua, and he was among those charged with decorating the

Palazzo del Te or is a palace in the suburbs of Mantua, Italy. It is a fine example of the mannerist style of architecture, and the acknowledged masterpiece of Giulio Romano. Although formed in Italian, the usual name in English of Palazzo del Te is not that ...

in Mantua. In this work he assisted with the ''Sala dei Venti'', the ''Camera delle Aquile'' (1527) and the ''Loggia di David'' (1531). During part of 1531 he is documented as collaborating with Giulio Romano in decoration of the Castello di San Giorgio of Mantua. From 1532 to 1536 he participated in executing the frescoes in the ''Sala dei Giganti'', where we see his somewhat flat and decorative style of painting on a large part of the ceilings and walls. From 1536 to 1539 he was part of the group of artists who decorated the Ducal Palace of Mantua. There he worked on the ''Appartamento di Troia'' and ''Camerino dei Falconi''. Working alone, but following his master designs, he painted the frescoes in the Boschetti chapel of San Andrea de Mantua. In this work there is again a tendency to flatten and compress the figures, eliminating any sense of spatial perspective. He is also attributed, though with doubts, to the decoration of the Chapel of St. Sebastian in the same church in Mantua. His works show great promise, but his career was cut short by a premature death. A ''Triumph of Julius Cesar'' by him was found in

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, and pictures in the National Gallery, The ''Capture of Carthage and Continence of Scipio'', and the ''Rape of the Sabine Women'', with the subsequent ''Reconciliation between the Romans and Sabines'', have been ascribed Rinaldo instead of Romano.

References

Sources

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. ''Las Vidas de los más excelentes arquitectos, pintores y escultores italianos desde Cimabue a nuestros tiempos'' Editorial Cátedra (2002), , pages 705–709. * ''The Grove Dictionary of Art'', Macmillan Publishers (2000)

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