Antonio del Ceraiolo, also known as Antonio di Arcangelo (the nickname "Ceraiolo" derives from the profession of his father, a ''ceraiolo'', or candle maker), was an
Italian Renaissance painter
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political sta ...
active in his native
Florence
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between 1518 and 1538. According to
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer who is best known for his work ''Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects'', considered the ideol ...
, Ceraiolo was a pupil first of
Lorenzo di Credi and then of
Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, in whose biography he is mentioned. Vasari singled out Ceraiolo's abilities as a portraitist and mentioned two of his altarpieces, both of which survive at the Museo del Cenacolo di San Salvi, Florence. The first of these is a ''Crucifixion with Saints Francis and Mary Magdalen'', originally in the church of San Jacopo tra' i fossi; the second a ''Saint Michael'' for the basilica of the
Santissima Annunziata.
Most of Ceraiolo's paintings are half-length images of the Madonna and Child, usually with the young Saint John the Baptist, Florence's patron saint.
References
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*Tamborino, Alessandra. “Considerazioni sull’attività di Antonio del Ceraiolo e proposte al suo catalogo,” ''Proporzioni'' (2003): pp. 104–122.
*Zeri, Federico. “Antonio del Ceraiolo,” ''Gazette des Beaux-Arts'', LXX (1967): pp. 139–154.
Painters from Florence
Italian Renaissance painters
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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