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FARINATO, PAOLO (1522–1606)

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FARINATO, See also:PAOLO (1522–1606) , See also:Italian painter and architect, was a native of See also:Verona. He is sometimes named Farinato degli Uberti, as he came from the See also:ancient Florentine stock to which the Ghibelline See also:leader Farinata degli Uberti, celebrated in See also:Dante's Commedia, belonged. He flourished at the same See also:time that the See also:art of Verona obtained its greatest lustre in the See also:works of -Paolo Cagliari (See also:Paul Veronese), succeeded by other members of the Cagliari See also:family, of whom most or all were outlived by Farinato. He was instructed by Niccolo Giolfino, and probably by See also:Antonio Badile and Domenico del Riccio (Brusasorci). Proceeding to See also:Venice, he formed his See also:style partly on See also:Titian and See also:Giorgione, though he was never conspicuous as a colourist, and in See also:form he learned more from the works of Giulio Romano. His nude figures show knowledge of the See also:antique; he affected a bronzed See also:tone in the complexions, harmonizing with the See also:general gravity of his See also:colour, which is more laudable in See also:fresco than in oil-See also:painting. See also:Vasari praised his thronged compositions and merit of draughtsmanship. His works are to be found not only in Venice and principally in Verona, but also in See also:Mantua, See also:Padua and other towns belonging or adjacent to the Venetian territory. He was a prosperous and See also:light-hearted See also:man, and continually progressed in his art, passing from a comparatively dry manner into a larger and bolder one, with much attraction of drapery and of landscape. The " See also:Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes," painted in the See also:church of S. Giorgio in Verona, is accounted his masterpiece; it was executed at the advanced See also:age of seventy-nine, and is of course replete with figures, comprising those of the painter's own family. A See also:saloon was painted by him in S.

Maria in Organo, in the same See also:

city, with the subjects of " See also:Michael expelling See also:Lucifer " and the "See also:Massacre of the Innocents "; in See also:Piacenza is a " St See also:Sixtus "; in See also:Berlin a " Presentation in the See also:Temple "; and in the communal See also:gallery of Verona one of his See also:prime works, the " See also:Marriage of St See also:Catherine." Farinato executed some sculptures, and various etchings of sacred and mythologic subjects; his works of all kinds were much in See also:request, including the See also:wax See also:models which he wrought as studies for his painted figures. He is said to have died at the same See also:hour as his wife. His son See also:Orazio was also a painter of merit.

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