Andrea Vicentino
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Andrea Vicentino (c. 1542 – 1617) was an Italian painter of the late-
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or
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period. He was a pupil of the painter
Giovanni Battista Maganza Giovanni Battista Maganza (c. 1513 – August 25, 1586) was a late Renaissance Italy, Italian painter and poet, from Vicenza in the area of Baone, Calaone, mainly producing religious altarpieces for local churches. Biography Maganza was also a ...
. Born in
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, he was also known as ''Andrea Michieli'' or ''Michelli''. He moved to
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in the mid-1570s and registered in the Fraglia or guild of Venetian painters in 1583. He worked alongside
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at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint ''The Arrival of Henry III at Venice'' (c. 1593) at the Sala delle Quattro Porte as well as works in the Sala del Senato and the Sala dello Scrutinio. He also painted the altarpiece ''Madonna of the Rosary'' (c. 1590) for the Treviso Cathedral, ''God the Father with Three Theological Virtues'' (1598) for the church in Gambara, and ''St Charles Borromeo'' (c. 1605) for a church in
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. Paintings by him exist in a number of galleries including the ''Raising of Lazarus'' at the
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