Matteo di Vittore was an Italian painter of the

Renaissance The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass id ...

, active in

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The isla ...

. He was the pupil and assistant of

Giovanni Bellini Giovanni Bellini (; c. 1430 – 26 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 fath ...

. He was one of the artists chosen by Bellini to value Giorgione's frescoes in the

Fondaco dei Turchi The Fondaco dei Turchi ( Venetian: ''Fontego dei Turchi'', tr, Türk Hanı) is a Veneto-Gothic style palazzo, later on named as the Turks' Inn, on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeast Italy. It was described by Augustus Hare in the 19th cen ...

in 1508, and in 1515 worked under his master in the Hall of Council in the

Doge's Palace The Doge's Palace ( it, Palazzo Ducale; vec, Pałaso Dogal) is a palace built in Venetian Gothic style, and one of the main landmarks of the city of Venice in northern Italy. The palace was the residence of the Doge of Venice, the supreme auth ...

. It seems highly probable that he was identical with

Vittore Belliniano Vittore Belliniano was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period considered to be identical with Bellini Bellini and Vittore di Matteo. He was a native of Venice, active c. year 1525. He painted historical subjects, and several of his pictures ...

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