Claudio Ridolfi (1560–1644), also known as Claudio Veronese,[1] was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
Claudio Ridolfi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1560 |
| Died | 1644 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Baroque |
Biography
editRidolfi was born in Verona to a noble family.[2] He was active mainly in Rome and Urbino where he was a pupil of the painters Dario Pozzo and Paolo Veronese.[3][4] Simone Cantarini, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi.[2]
Despite being unable to find employment as a painter, he lived a comfortable life and enjoyed painting.[1][3] While in Urbino he married a noblewoman and established himself in Corinaldo.[3] He died in 1644 aged 84 years old.[2]
Works
edit- 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
References
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Claudio Ridolfi.
- Notes
- ^ a b Lanzi, Luigi Antonio (1847). 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. p. 449.
- ^ a b c Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and ... Volume 3, by James Dennistoun, (1851) page 361.
- ^ a b c "Giuseppe Macpherson (1726-c. 1780) - Claudio Ridolfi (ca 1570-1644)". www.rct.uk. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
- ^ Hobbes, James R. (1849). The Picture Collector's Manual ...: Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing Fifteen Hundred More Names Than in Any Other Work ... T. & W. Boone. p. 223.
- Sources
- Farquhar, Maria (1855). Ralph Nicholson Wornum (ed.). Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters. London: Woodfall & Kinder. p. 147.
