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Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian
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Volume 2; by Giacomo Mancini; Tipografia Baduel, Perugia (1832); page 76-77. He also worked in Borgo San Sepolcro. He worked for the service Duke
Casa Cappellino
1490 births 1566 deaths People from Sansepolcro 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Mannerist painters Catholic painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub
Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian Mannerist
Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...
painter active mostly in Umbria
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. He was born in the frazione of Colle in Borgo Sansepolcro, province of Arezzo, Tuscany
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Biography
He is also called ''Raffaellino della Colle'' or ''Raffaello dal Colle''. Raffaellino was a pupil ofRaphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, better known as Raphael (; or ; March 28 or April 6, 1483April 6, 1520), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual ...
, whom he is held to have assisted in the decoration of the Farnesina
Farnesina may refer to:
Architecture
* Casa della Farnesina, an historic building of the ancient Rome, in the neighborhood of Trastevere, Rome
* Palazzo della Farnesina, the headquarters of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of the ...
and of the stanze in the Vatican Palace. After Raphael's death, Raffaellino continued working in the Vatican, helping complete the ''Sala di Constantino'' though now under the direction of Giulio Romano
Giulio Romano (, ; – 1 November 1546), is the acquired name of Giulio Pippi, who was an Italian painter and architect. He was a pupil of Raphael, and his stylistic deviations from High Renaissance classicism help define the sixteenth-ce ...
. After the 1527 Sack of Rome, like most of Romano's studio and most of the foreign art community, Raffaellino and other artists dispersed through Italy, most returning to their home cities. Rafaellino went to Città di Castello
Città di Castello (); "Castle Town") is a city and ''comune'' in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north ...
, near his birthplace, where he painted altar-pieces for the principal churches, which are now mostly to be found in that town's Municipal Art Gallery.Volume 2; by Giacomo Mancini; Tipografia Baduel, Perugia (1832); page 76-77. He also worked in Borgo San Sepolcro. He worked for the service Duke
Della Rovere
The House of Della Rovere (; literally "of the oak tree") was a noble family of Italy. It had humble origins in Savona, in Liguria, and acquired power and influence through nepotism and ambitious marriages arranged by two Della Rovere popes: Fr ...
in Urbino
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from 1539 to 1543. He also worked with Girolamo Genga, decorating the ''Camera dei Semibusti'', ''Sala della Calunni'', and ''Cabinet of Hercules'' of the Villa Imperiale of Pesaro for Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. In Perugia
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and par ...
, he worked at the ''Rocca Paolina'' (1540). In 1536, Vasari commissioned from Raffaellino some ephemeral street decorations to celebrate the entry of Charles V Charles V may refer to:
* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (1500–1558)
* Charles V of Naples (1661–1700), better known as Charles II of Spain
* Charles V of France (1338–1380), called the Wise
* Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (1643–1690)
* Infant ...
into Florence
Florence ( ; it, Firenze ) is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.Bilancio demografico ...
.
References
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1490 births 1566 deaths People from Sansepolcro 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 16th-century Italian painters Painters from Tuscany Italian Mannerist painters Catholic painters {{Italy-painter-15thC-stub