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Antonio Badile

Antonio Badile

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Antonio Badile (c. 1518 - 1560) was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

 painter from Verona
Verona
Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient...

. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile. Along with Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his native city of Verona.He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona , a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna...

, Antonio is known as one of the mentors of Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...

 and Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Giovanni Battista Zelotti was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories.He appears to have been born in Venice, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati...

; as well as his father-in-law. Badile is described as continuing the "retardataire" tradition of Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his native city of Verona.He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona , a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna...

 well past the 1540s. His masterpiece is the altarpiece for San Nazaro of a Madonna and Saints (1540); another notable work is his Resurrection of Lazarus for the chapel of Santa Croce in the church of San Bernardino.
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Antonio Badile (c. 1518 - 1560) was an Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...

 painter from Verona
Verona
Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient...

. He trained with his uncle Francesco Badile. Along with Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his native city of Verona.He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona , a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna...

, Antonio is known as one of the mentors of Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese
Paolo Veronese was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at Cana and The Feast in the House of Levi...

 and Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Giovanni Battista Zelotti
Giovanni Battista Zelotti was an Italian painter of the late Renaissance, active in Venice and her mainland territories.He appears to have been born in Venice, and trained with Antonio Badile and Domenico Riccio, as well as perhaps Titian. Bernasconi claims he trained with his uncle Paolo Farinati...

; as well as his father-in-law. Badile is described as continuing the "retardataire" tradition of Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Giovanni Francesco Caroto was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in his native city of Verona.He initially apprenticed under Liberale da Verona , a conservative painter infused with the style of Mantegna...

 well past the 1540s. His masterpiece is the altarpiece for San Nazaro of a Madonna and Saints (1540); another notable work is his Resurrection of Lazarus for the chapel of Santa Croce in the church of San Bernardino. Other works are found in towns of the Veneto.

He was partially influenced by the Brescian
Brescia
Brescia is a city in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy. It is situated at the foot of the Alps, between the Mella and the Naviglio, with a population of around 191,000. It is the second largest city in Lombardy, after the capital, Milan...

 painter Alessandro Bonvicino (called il Moretto)
Alessandro Bonvicino
Alessandro Bonvicino , more commonly known as Il Moretto da Brescia, was an Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice.-Biography:...

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