- Giuseppe Porta
Giuseppe Porta also known as Giuseppe Salviati (1520 - 1575) was an Italian painter of the late-
Renaissance period, active mostly inVenice .Born in
Castelnuovo di Garfagnana , in 1535 he apprenticed withFrancesco Salviati inRome . He adopted his mentor’s last name when signing paintings. In 1539, he accompanied his master to Venice, and stayed there after Salviati left in 1541. From 1541 to 1552 he worked atPadua , painting in particular a series of ' Scenes from the Life of John the Baptist’‘, in the Selvático Palace. In 1565, he returned to Rome to paint frescoes, left incomplete by his master, for the Sala Regia ("Emperor Frederick I. doing homage to Alexander III") in the Vatican. He returned to Venice in 1565 to paint both in theDoge's Palace andBiblioteca Marciana , where he painted "Sibyls, the Prophets, and the Cardinal Virtues" ; and for the chapel, the "Dead Christ with his mother and Mary Magdalen". He was elected into the Florentine Accademia dell'Arte del Disegno. Much of his output was on now-lost external façade decoration. He also published a mathematically-oriented treatises on decorative column design. He painted a "Descent from the Cross, with the Virgin, Mary Magdalene, and St. John" for the Church Degli Angeli atMurano .One of his pupils was
Pietro Malombra .References
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*cite book| first=Michael| last=Bryan| year=1889| title="Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical" (Volume II L-Z)| editor = Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves| pages= page 311| publisher=George Bell and Sons|location=York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007 |id= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=K2cCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=Michael+Bryan+Painters+Engravers#PPP7,M1| authorlink=
* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=3303| Getty museum entry] .
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