Marco Cardisco, also known as Marco Calabrese, (Born in Tiriolo c.1486 – c.1542) was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...

period, active mainly in

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during 1508–1542.

Biography

He was a pupil of the painter and decorator

Polidoro da Caravaggio Polidoro Caldara, usually known as Polidoro da Caravaggio ( – 1543), was an Italians, Italian painter of the Mannerist period, "arguably the most gifted and certainly the least conventional of Raphael's pupils", who was best known for his now- ...

, and influenced by

Andrea da Salerno Andrea Sabbatini (1487–1530) (var. Andrea Sabatini or Andrea da Salerno) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was born in Salerno, and initially trained under Raimondo Epifanio in Naples, but moved to Rome and became a close discip ...

He painted at Sant' Agostino at

Aversa Aversa () is a city and ''comune'' in the Province of Caserta in Campania, southern Italy, about 24 km north of Naples. It is the centre of an agricultural district, the ''Agro Aversano'', producing wine and cheese (famous for the typical dome ...

. Among his pupils were the painter Pietro Negroni and Giovanni Filippo Crescione. He is also known as ''Marco Calabrese'', because he was born in

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1480s births 1540s deaths People from the Province of Catanzaro 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub