Posts in Category: 16th Century
Paris Bordone
Paris Bordone, July 15, 1500 – January 19, 1571, was an Italian painter of the Venetian Renaissance. He was born in Treviso and moved to Venice while still young. According to early sources, he trained briefly with Titian, though his independent career developed outside Titian’s workshop system. He worked in Venice, Treviso, and other northern Italian centers, and also received commissions abroad.
Bordone painted portraits, mythological subjects, religious works, and allegorical compositions. His style is associated with the Venetian use of color, elaborate textiles, and architectural settings. He often combined portraiture with narrative or symbolic elements, and his works show connections to Titian, Giorgione, and later Mannerist taste.
Bordone did not found a formal school, though his work circulated widely among Venetian and northern Italian patrons. His paintings are held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan; and the Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome.
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt
Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Dutch artist, May 1, 1566 - June 27, 1641
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn
Jan Anthonisz van Ravesteyn, Dutch painter, c 1572 – buried June 21, 1657
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi
Baldassare Peruzzi, March 7, 1481–January 6, 1536, was an Italian architect, painter, draughtsman, and designer born in Siena. He trained among goldsmiths and draftsmen, and his early work reflects the influence of the Sienese architect and painter Francesco di Giorgio Martini.
Peruzzi moved to Rome around 1503 and became known for his architectural and painted work, including the Villa Farnesina. In 1520 he was appointed architect of St Peter’s Basilica. His work combined the study of ancient Roman architecture with painting, perspective, and stage design.
After the Sack of Rome in 1527, Peruzzi returned to Siena and worked for the Republic of Siena through 1534. He later returned to Rome, where he died on January 6, 1536, and was buried in the Pantheon.
Cavaliere d’Arpino
Giuseppe Cesari (1568–1640), known as Cavaliere d’Arpino, was an Italian painter and draftsman associated with late Roman Mannerism. He began working in Rome as a teenager in Niccolò Circignani’s workshop and participated in decorative projects at the Vatican.
Under Pope Clement VIII, Cesari became a leading painter of religious and civic commissions. His projects included the fresco cycle in the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Ascension at San Giovanni in Laterano. Clement VIII awarded him the title of Cavaliere di Cristo in 1600.
Cesari also produced small religious and mythological paintings and drawings in chalk and ink. Caravaggio worked in his studio early in his Roman career. Cesari served as head of the Accademia di San Luca and continued painting in Rome until his death in 1640.
Hans Weiditz the Younger
Hans Weiditz the Younger, German artist, 1495 – c 1537 Bern
Giovanni Lanfranco
Giovanni Lanfranco, January 26, 1582–November 30, 1647, was an Italian painter born in Parma. He worked principally in Parma, Rome, and Naples.
Lanfranco trained with Agostino Carracci in Parma and later joined Annibale Carracci’s workshop in Rome. He worked with artists including Domenichino, Francesco Albani, and Guido Reni on the decoration of the Palazzo Farnese, and subsequently received major church and palace commissions in Rome and Naples.
His principal commissions included the dome of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome and fresco decorations at the Gesù Nuovo, the Certosa di San Martino, and Naples Cathedral. His paintings are held by the Museo del Prado, the Louvre, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Palace of Versailles, and other major collections.
