Peter Candid. Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido and in Bavaria as Peter Candid was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria.
He was an artist at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich. Candid was born in Bruges and moved with his parents to Florence at the age of 10. His father Elias was a tapestry weaver who had been hired by the newly opened Medici weaving workshop, the Arazzeria Medicea, which was led by the Flemish master Jan Rost.
The original Flemish family name was de Witte. The word witte means white in Flemish and that is why the family adopted the Italian family name Candido in Italy, an Italian word which also means white.
Peter would change his family name to Candid after he moved to Germany. Peter started his apprenticeship in Italy in the early 1560s under an unknown master.
The earliest known record of Candid's work as an artist is in relation to payment for a fresco made in Florence in 1569. He is first mentioned as a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno was a prestigious academy of artists in Florence whose members have included Michelangelo Buonarroti, Lazzaro Donati, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini and others. Beginning in 1578 he painted a series of three altarpieces for
He was an artist at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich. Candid was born in Bruges and moved with his parents to Florence at the age of 10. His father Elias was a tapestry weaver who had been hired by the newly opened Medici weaving workshop, the Arazzeria Medicea, which was led by the Flemish master Jan Rost.
The original Flemish family name was de Witte. The word witte means white in Flemish and that is why the family adopted the Italian family name Candido in Italy, an Italian word which also means white.
Peter would change his family name to Candid after he moved to Germany. Peter started his apprenticeship in Italy in the early 1560s under an unknown master.
The earliest known record of Candid's work as an artist is in relation to payment for a fresco made in Florence in 1569. He is first mentioned as a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. The Accademia delle Arti del Disegno was a prestigious academy of artists in Florence whose members have included Michelangelo Buonarroti, Lazzaro Donati, Agnolo Bronzino, Benvenuto Cellini and others. Beginning in 1578 he painted a series of three altarpieces for
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