Andrea Schiavone. Andrea Meldolla, also known as Andrea Schiavone or Andrea Lo Schiavone was an Italian Renaissance painter and etcher, born in present-day Croatia, active mainly in the city of Venice.
His style combined Mannerist elements, a relative rarity in Venice, with much influence from the mainstream of Venetian painting, especially Titian. Meldolla was born in the Venetian-ruled city of Zara in Dalmatia, now Zadar in Croatia, the son of a garrison commander of a post nearby.
His family was originally from the small town of Meldola, close to the city of Forlė in Romagna. He trained either in Zara or in Venice.
Gian Paolo Lomazzo stated, in a book of 1584, that he was a pupil of Parmigianino, but this has been doubted. There are unproven claims that he trained with Bonifazio de Pitati.
He worked in fresco, panel painting, and etching. By 1540, he was well enough established in Venice that Giorgio Vasari commissioned him a large battle picture. Although initially much influenced by Parmigianino and Italian Mannerism, he was also a strikingly daring exponent of Venetian painting techniques, and ultimately combined both in his works, influencing Titian, Tintoretto, and Jacopo Bassano among others. His works shocked some contemporaries and stimulated others. By the 1550s, he had achieved a new synthesis of Raphael and Titian's compositional elements with his own interest in atmosphere, effect
His style combined Mannerist elements, a relative rarity in Venice, with much influence from the mainstream of Venetian painting, especially Titian. Meldolla was born in the Venetian-ruled city of Zara in Dalmatia, now Zadar in Croatia, the son of a garrison commander of a post nearby.
His family was originally from the small town of Meldola, close to the city of Forlė in Romagna. He trained either in Zara or in Venice.
Gian Paolo Lomazzo stated, in a book of 1584, that he was a pupil of Parmigianino, but this has been doubted. There are unproven claims that he trained with Bonifazio de Pitati.
He worked in fresco, panel painting, and etching. By 1540, he was well enough established in Venice that Giorgio Vasari commissioned him a large battle picture. Although initially much influenced by Parmigianino and Italian Mannerism, he was also a strikingly daring exponent of Venetian painting techniques, and ultimately combined both in his works, influencing Titian, Tintoretto, and Jacopo Bassano among others. His works shocked some contemporaries and stimulated others. By the 1550s, he had achieved a new synthesis of Raphael and Titian's compositional elements with his own interest in atmosphere, effect
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