Claudio Ridolfi Explained

Claudio Ridolfi
Birth Date:1560
Birth Place:Verona
Death Date:1644
Death Place:Ancona
Nationality:Italian
Known For:Painting
Movement:Baroque

Claudio Ridolfi (1560 - 1644), also known as Claudio Veronese,[1] was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

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.[2] [3] Simone Cantarini, Girolamo Cialdieri, Benedetto Marini, and two painters named Patanazzi and Urbinelli were pupils or followers of Ridolfi.[4]

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.

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    1. Book: 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. 1847. H.G. Bohn. 449. en.
    2. Web site: Giuseppe Macpherson (1726-c. 1780) - Claudio Ridolfi (ca 1570-1644). 2021-11-05. www.rct.uk. en.
    3. Book: Hobbes, James R.. The Picture Collector's Manual ...: Being a Dictionary of Painters, Containing Fifteen Hundred More Names Than in Any Other Work .... 1849. T. & W. Boone. 223. en.
    4. https://archive.org/details/memoirsdukesurb05denngoog Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, illustrating the arms, arts, and ...