Claudio Ridolfi
Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644), also known as Claudio Veronese, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Also recorded as Claudio Veronese · Claudio Ridolphi · Rodolfi · Claudio Redolfi
Claudio Ridolfi
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- Name
- Claudio Ridolfi
- Born
- 1560
- Birthplace
- Verona
- Died
- 1644
- Place of death
- Ancona
- Known for
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter
- Movements
- Veronese school
- Teachers
- Dario Pozzo · Paolo Veronese
- Languages
- Italian
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Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644), also known as Claudio Veronese, was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
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Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644) was a painter, a national of the Republic of Venice. The painter was born in Verona and died in Corinaldo.
Activity centred on painting. The painter was associated with Veronese school.
Languages used include Italian. Works are held at Bavarian State Painting Collections, Castelvecchio Museum and Museo del Prado.
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Biography
Biography
Training under Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese is recorded. Simone Cantarini is recorded as having studied under Claudio Ridolfi. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is painting. Work by Claudio Ridolfi is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Castelvecchio Museum.
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Key facts
• Name — Claudio Ridolfi • Born — 1560 • Birthplace — Verona • Died — 1644 • Place of death — Ancona • Known for — Painting • Movement — Baroque • Illustration — Flogging - Sant'Anastasia (Verona) • Illustration — Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross. Santa Maria in Portuno, Corinaldo
Biography
Biography
Ridolfi was born in Verona to a noble family. He was active mainly in Rome and Urbino where he was a pupil of the painters Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese. Simone Cantarini, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi. Despite being unable to find employment as a painter, he lived a comfortable life and enjoyed painting. While in Urbino he married a noblewoman and established himself in Corinaldo. He died in 1644 aged 84 years old.
Works
Works
• Birth of John the Baptist for the church of Santa Lucia in Urbino • Presentation of the virgin in the temple for a church in Santo Spirito • Deposition for a church in Rimini • Santa Giustina, St Benedict presenting rules to the principal Benedictines for a church in Padua • San Fillippo and Santa Maria Assunta, in a canvas, in the church of Santa Maria Assunta, in Galzignano Terme
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1560
Claudio Ridolfi was born in 1560.
1644
Claudio Ridolfi died on 1 January 1644.
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Verona.
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Corinaldo.
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- “Claudio Ridolfi”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2978552: Claudio Ridolfi
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- 1.Lanzi, Luigi Antonio. The History of Painting in Italy: From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century. H.G. Bohn. 449. 1847.
- 2.Giuseppe Macpherson (1726-c. 1780) - Claudio Ridolfi (ca 1570-1644). www.rct.uk.
- 3.Hobbes, James R. The Picture Collector's Manual .: Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing Fifteen Hundred More Names Than in Any Other Work . T. & W. Boone. 223. 1849.
- 4.Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and ... Volume 3, by James Dennistoun, (1851) page 361.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Claudio Veronese, Claudio Ridolphi, Rodolfi, Claudio Redolfi and Cav.r Redolfi. His recorded language was Italian. Formation and teaching. He trained under Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style. Associated with Veronese school.
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Museo del Prado, Bavarian State Painting Collections and Castelvecchio Museum
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