- Paolo Farinati
Paolo Farinati (also called as "Farinato" or "Farinato degli Uberti"; c. 1524 - c. 1606) was an Italian painter of the
Mannerist style , active in mainly in his nativeVerona , but also inMantua andVenice .He may have ancestors among Florentine stock to which belonged the
Ghibelline leaderFarinata degli Uberti , celebrated inDante 's "Divina Commedia ". He was a contemporary of the prominent artist of Verona,Paolo Veronese . He was succeeded by other members of theCagliari family, of whom most or all were outlived by Farinato. He was instructed, according toGiorgio Vasari , by his father and by the VeroneseNiccolò Giolfino , and probably byAntonio Badile andDomenico del Riccio (Brusasorci). His first major work was an altarpiece for the duomo di Mantua.Proceeding to
Mantua , he formed his initial style partly on the influence ofGiulio Romano . 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 inPadua and other towns belonging or adjacent to the Venetian territory. Later, he accommodated to a style similar to that ofPaolo Veronese .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. The "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes", painted in the church of
S. Giorgio in Verona , is accounted his masterpiece, executed at the advanced age of seventy-nine, and crowded with fitures. A "Last Supper" was painted by him inSanta Maria in Organo ; also in this church, he painted a "Michael expelling Lucifer" and "Massacre of the Innocents". InPiacenza is a "St Sixtus"; inBerlin 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 was also a painter of merit.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.
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*1911|article=Paolo Farinato|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Paolo_Farinato
*cite book | first= Sydney J.| last= Freedberg| year=1993| title= Painting in Italy, 1500-1600| chapter= | editor= Pelican History of Art| others= | pages= p. 564 | publisher= Penguin BooksExternal links
* [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=2973| Getty guide]
* [http://213.171.96.209/farinati/ exhibition in Verona]
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