- Andrea Vicentino
Andrea Vicentino (c. 1542 - 1617) was an Italian painter of the late-
Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painterGiovanni Battista Maganza . Born inVicenza , he was also known as "Andrea Michieli" or "Michelli". He moved toVenice in the mid-1570s and registered in the “Fraglia ” or guild of Venetian painters in 1583. He worked alongsideTintoretto at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint "Arrival of Henry III at Venice" (c. 1593) at the Sala delle Quattro Porte of the Ducal palace, as well as works in the Sala del Senato and dello Scrutinio. He also painted the altarpiece of "Madonna of the Rosary" (c. 1590) for the cathedral ofTreviso , "God the Father with Three Theological Virtues" (1598) for the church inGambara , and "St Charles Borromeo" (c. 1605) for a church inMestre .References
*cite book | first= Maria|last= Farquhar| year=1855| title= Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters| editor = Ralph Nicholson Wornum | pages= page | publisher= Woodfall & Kinder, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London; Digitized by Googlebooks from Oxford University copy on Jun 27, 2006| id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:Wornum+intitle:principal+intitle:painters | authorlink=
* [http://www.wga.hu/bio/v/vicentin/biograph.html| Web gallery of Art biography]
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