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Lorenzo di Credi (c. 1459 – January 12, 1537) 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....
 Renaissance
Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
. He first influenced Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 and then was greatly influenced by him.

in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he started to work in Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....
's workshop. After the death of his master, he inherited the direction of the workshop. For the workshop, he executed in the Madonna di Piazza for Pistoia Cathedral
Pistoia Cathedral

The Cathedral of Pistoia is the main religious building of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the Piazza del Duomo in the city's centre....
, and probably also collaborated to some sculptures.

Amongst his other early works are an Annunciation in the Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
, a Madonna with Child in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, and Adoration of the Child in the Querini Stampalia of Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
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Lorenzo di Credi (c. 1459 – January 12, 1537) 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....
 Renaissance
Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 13th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe....
 painter
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
 and sculptor
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
. He first influenced Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 and then was greatly influenced by him.

Life

Born in Florence
Florence

Florence is the Capital city of the Italy Regions of Italy of Tuscany and of the provinces of Italy Province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany and has a population of 364,779 ....
, he started to work in Andrea del Verrocchio
Andrea del Verrocchio

Andrea del Verrocchio, born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, was an Italy sculpture, goldsmith and Painting who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence....
's workshop. After the death of his master, he inherited the direction of the workshop. For the workshop, he executed in the Madonna di Piazza for Pistoia Cathedral
Pistoia Cathedral

The Cathedral of Pistoia is the main religious building of Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the Piazza del Duomo in the city's centre....
, and probably also collaborated to some sculptures.

Amongst his other early works are an Annunciation in the Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
, a Madonna with Child in the Galleria Sabauda of Turin
Turín

Tur?n is a municipality in the Ahuachap?n Department Departments of El Salvador of El Salvador....
, and Adoration of the Child in the Querini Stampalia of Venice
Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
. Of a later period are a Madonna and Saints (Musée du Louvre) (1493) and an Adoration of the Child in the Uffizi
Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery , one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy, Italy....
. In Fiesole
Fiesole

Fiesole is a town and comune of the province of Florence in the Italy region of Tuscany, on a famously scenic height above Florence, 8 km NE of that city....
, he remade parts of Fra Angelico
Fra Angelico

Fra Angelico , born Guido di Pietro, was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a rare and perfect talent"....
 panels on the altars of the church of San Domenico.

Lorenzo's mature works (such as in the Crucifixion in the Gottingen Museum, Annunciation of Cambridge
Cambridge

The city status in the United Kingdom of Cambridge is a College town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies about 50 miles north of London....
 and the Madonna and Saints of Pistoia
Pistoia

Pistoia is a city in the Tuscany region of Italy, the capital of a province of Pistoia, located about 30 km west and north of Florence....
) are influenced by Fra Bartolomeo, Perugino and young Raphael
Raphael

Raphael Sanzio, usually known by his first name alone was an Italy Painting and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings....
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In recent times, one of di Credi's works gained attention when scholars pointed out a resemblance between the face of Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is a 16th century portrait painting painted in oil painting on a poplar panel painting by Leonardo da Vinci during the Italian Renaissance....
 by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italy polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, Painting, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer....
 and the face of Caterina Sforza
Caterina Sforza

Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forl? , was the illegitimate daughter of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan and Lucrezia Landriani, the wife of the courtier Gian Piero Landriani, a close friend of the Duke....
 in a portrait by him. Caterina Sforza was the Lady of Forlì
Forlì

Forl? is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forl?, of the Renaissance humanism historian Flavio Biondo, of the famous physicians Geronimo Mercuriali and Giovanni Battista Morgagni....
 and Imola
Imola

Imola is a town, comune in the province of Bologna, located on the Santerno river, in the Emilia-Romagna region of north-central Italy. The town is traditionally considered the western entrance to the historical region Romagna....
 (in Italy
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....
), later prisoner of Cesare Borgia
Cesare Borgia

Cesare Borgia, born , Duke of Valentinois, and Romagna, Prince of Andria and Venafro, Count of Dyois, Lord of Piombino, Camerino and Urbino, Gonfalone of the Church and Captain General of the Church, was a Spanish-Italian Condottieri, lord and cardinal....
. The portrait, known also as La dama dei gelsomini, is now in the Pinacoteca of Forlì.

He is apparently a direct ancestor of current Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are a Major North American professional sports teams baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox presently play in the American League's American League Central in Major League Baseball....
 American baseball player Joe Crede
Joe Crede

Joseph Crede is an American Major League Baseball third baseman for the Minnesota Twins.Crede attended high school at Fatima High School in Westphalia, Missouri where he led them to 3 district championships and two final four berths as a pitcher....
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