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CARDUCCI, BARTOLOMMEO (156o-161o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 326 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARDUCCI, BARTOLOMMEO (156o-161o) , See also:Italian painter, better known as CARDUCHO, the See also:Spanish corruption of his Italian patronymic, was See also:born in See also:Florence, where he studied See also:architecture and See also:sculpture under See also:Ammanati, and See also:painting under Zuccaero. The latter See also:master he accompanied to See also:Madrid, where he painted the See also:ceiling of the See also:Escorial library, assisting also in the See also:production of the frescos that adorn the cloisters of that famous See also:palace. He was a See also:great favourite with See also:Philip III., and lived and died in See also:Spain, where most of his See also:works are to be found. The most celebrated of them is a Descent from the See also:Cross, in the See also:church of See also:San Felipe el Real, in Madrid. His younger See also:brother VINCENZO (1568-1638), was born in Florence, and was trained as a painter by Bartolommeo, whom he followed to Madrid. He worked a great See also:deal for Philip III. and Philip IV., and his best pictures are those he executed for the former monarch as decorations in the Prado. Examples of his See also:work are preserved at See also:Toledo, at See also:Valladolid, at See also:Segovia, and at several other Spanish cities. For many years he laboured in Madrid as a teacher of his See also:art, and among his pupils were Giovanni See also:Ricci, Pedro Obregon, Vela, Francisco Collantes, and other distinguished representatives of the Spanish school during the 17th See also:century. He was also author of a See also:treatise or See also:dialogue, De See also:las Excelencias de laPintura, which was published in 1633.

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