Raffaellino del Colle (1490–1566) was an Italian
Mannerist 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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, Italy.
Biography
He is also called ''Raffaellino della Colle'' or ''Raffaello dal Colle''. Raffaellino was a pupil of
Raphael
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, whom he is held to have assisted in the decoration of the
Farnesina and of the stanze in the
Vatican
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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. 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, 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.
Istruzione storico-pittorica per visitore le chiese e palazzi di Castello
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 in Urbino
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from 1539 to 1543. He also worked with Girolamo Genga, decorating the ''Camera dei Semibusti'', ''Sala della Calunnia'', and ''Cabinet of Hercules'' of the Villa Imperiale of Pesaro for Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino. In Perugia
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, he worked at the ''Rocca Paolina'' (1540). In 1536, Vasari commissioned from Raffaellino some ephemeral street decorations to celebrate the entry of Charles V into Florence
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Casa Cappellino
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1490 births
1566 deaths
People from Sansepolcro
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Tuscany
Italian Mannerist painters
Catholic painters
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