Alessandro Araldi (c. 1460 – c. 1529) was an Italian painter of the

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, active mainly in

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. Little is known of his

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. He apparently assisted with contemporary

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(il Temperello). His work shows the influences of the school of

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and of early Venetian Renaissance painters such as

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 29 November 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter, probably the best known of the Bellini family of Venetian painters. He was raised in the household of Jacopo Bellini, formerly thought to have been his father, ...

and the

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, but also

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from

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. He painted

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es in the

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of San Paolo. He also painted two scenes with the story of St. Catherine, the ''Dispute before the emperor Maximilian'' and ''St. Catherine and St. Jerome'', including an odd Annunciation (1514), for the

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Giovanna da Piacenza (1514).

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(Correggio) would complete his own masterpiece frescoes for the abbess in a strikingly different, and for the age, more modern style.

Gallery

File:Alessandro araldi, volta con scene bibliche, 1514, 01.jpg, Vault with Biblical scenes (1514) File:Alessandro araldi, volta con scene bibliche, 1514, 08.jpg, Vault File:Alessandro araldi, volta con scene bibliche, 1514, pennacchi 08.jpg, Vault File:Alessandro araldi, lunette con scene di devozione e di sacrificio, 1514, 05.jpg,

Lunette A lunette (French ''lunette'', 'little moon') is a crescent- or half-moon–shaped or semi-circular architectural space or feature, variously filled with sculpture, painted, glazed, filled with recessed masonry, or void. A lunette may also be ...

with scenes of devotion and sacrifice (1514) File:Alessandro araldi, lunette con scene di devozione e di sacrificio, 1514, 04.jpg, Lunette File:Alessandro araldi, sposalizio della vergine, 1519, 02.jpg, ''Marriage of the Virgin'' (1519) File:Araldi catParma.jpg, ''Holy Family with Bishop Domenico of

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'' (1496)

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