Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Illustration — Fresco from Villa Emo, west wall of the hall. Giovanni Battista Zelotti (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ddzeˈlɔtti; 1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories. He appears to have been born in Verona, then part of the Venetian mainland, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian.
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Giovanni Battista Zelotti
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- Born
- 1526 · Verona.
- Died
- 1578 · Mantua.
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter · draftsperson
- Movements
- Mannerism · Veronese school
- Teachers
- Antonio Badile
- Known for
- Venice Seated upon the Globe and upon a Lion · Venus between Mars and Neptune
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Fresco from Villa Emo, west wall of the hall. Giovanni Battista Zelotti (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ddzeˈlɔtti; 1526 – 28 August 1578) was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories. He appears to have been born in Verona, then part of the Venetian mainland, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian.
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Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati. He is called Battista da Verona by Vasari, and was also known as Battista Farinati. He was a contemporary of Paolo Veronese and shared work in the Villa Soranza near Castelfranco (1551) and at Venice: the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio dei Dieci in the Doge's Palace (1553-4); the Biblioteca Marciana (1556-7), and the Palazzo Trevisan (1557) on Murano. Zelotti came to embody the Veronese tradition on the mainland. He frescoed villas designed by Andrea Palladio, notably Villa Emo and Villa Foscari, where he worked with Bernardino India and Battista Franco: the exact number of Palladian villas he frescoed is not known. In the 1570s he decorated the Castello del Catajo of the Obizzi family at Battaglia Terme with 40 frescoes. He also worked in Mantua for the house of Gonzaga.
Training under Antonio Badile is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Works named in the authority record are Venice Seated upon the Globe and upon a Lion and Venus between Mars and Neptune. Work by Giovanni Battista Zelotti is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, Nationalmuseum, Städel Museum, National Museum in Warsaw and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
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- 1.Boni, Filippo de'. Biografia degli artisti ovvero dizionario della vita e delle opere dei pittori, degli scultori, degli intagliatori, dei tipografi e dei musici di ogni nazione che fiorirono da'tempi più remoti sino á nostri giorni. Seconda Edizione. Presso Andrea Santini e Figlio. 1103. 1852.
- 2.Recently the frescoes at Castello del Catajo have been open to the public (see Out of the Shadows, a Camelot of Italian Knights and Daring Deeds, New York Times, March 13, 2008, Arts section article, by Elisabetta Povoledo).
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