Matteo Balducci was an Italian painter of the

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. He was born in

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, a small town near

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. Balducci was an associate of Giovanni Antonio Bazzi between 1517 and 1523. The following year he painted an altar-piece in San Francesco di Pian Castagniano in

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in Tuscany. He also painted in churches of

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, including an ''Assumption of the Virgin'' in the Capella Borghesi of Santo Spirito and a ''Nativity'' in Santa Maria Maddalena. ''History of Painting in Italy: Umbrian & Sienese masters of the fifteenth century'' Volume 5
(1914); Publisher: Charles Scribner's and Sons, New York, page 420-421. By Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle.

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* 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Mannerist painters Painters from Tuscany Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub