Domenico Caprioli Explained

Domenico Caprioli
Birth Date:	1494
Death Date:	1528 (aged 34)
Nationality:	Republic of Venice
Field:	Painting
Movement:	High Renaissance (Venetian school)

Domenico Caprioli (1494–1528) was an Italian painter born at Treviso in 1494. He produced portraits in the style of Giorgione.

Life

Caprioli was the son-in-law and pupil of Pier Maria Pennacchi and rose to prominence in the early 16th Century during the High Renaissance. In addition to portrait works, he painted numerous altarpieces. He was murdered at the age of 34 by his wife's stepfather, allegedly following a years-long dispute over her dowry.^[1] Several portraits attributed to him survive today, some of which are on display at the Hermitage, Bowes, and Gemäldegalerie museums.

References

• Book: Bryan, Michael. 1886. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical . I: A-K . Robert Edmund Graves . 229–230 . George Bell and Sons. London .
• Book: Perini Folesani, Giovanna. 2017. Dominicus Who? Solving the Riddle Posed by a Splendid "Venetian" Portrait Dated 1512, at the State Hermitage Museum. Actual Problems of Theory and History of Art: Collection of articles. Vol. 7.. 7. S. V. Mal'tseva. E. Iu. Staniukovich-Denisova. A. V. Zakharova. 542–554. St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg Univ. Press.

Notes and References

1. Book: Cook, Herbert . 1912 . Reviews and Appreciations of Some Old Italian Masters . W. Heinemann .